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Agreed - but the current system is anything but efficient or healthy. All those people who walk into hospitals and get free medical service - their costs are amortized onto insured folks. This, in part, drives premiums ever higher. In addition, while you can walk into a hospital and get service - if you are uninsured it certainly won’t be their A team, and you will certainly get billed afterwards.

I think what keeps getting lost in the debate is that nobody is proposing eliminating health insurance in general for a government run system for all americans. Its the current system PLUS gov’t healthcare for the uninsured. How is that different from the Florida homeowners insurance provided by the state for people who simply cannot get coverage from national insurers?

I don’t understand why people are so vehemently against providing health insurance to the UNinsured.

-PH

Because I don’t want to pay for it, and I don’t trust the government to provide it without taking things from me.