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Originally Posted by Sundae
Clod, your posts are usually so measured.
Please tell me no citizen in one of the world's wealthiest nations (and one at the forefront of many medical developments) would be left to bleed to death by the roadside because they didn't have medical insurance?
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No no, currently everyone gets treated for life-threatening injuries, but treating uninsured people is one reason (among many) that medical costs are so high for the rest of us. Nirvana was saying she shouldn't have to buy insurance because she would only use it in an accident. That's kind of the whole point of insurance. If everyone took that option, there would be zero dollars for emergency medical treatment and we would indeed have to live in a world where people bled out on the side of the road, unlike now where people with insurance are paying for the medical care of those who saw no need to purchase it for themselves.