re: #15 Gus 802

Note:

While a single visit to an emergency room can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars (often paid for by the government), a call to a poison center costs the government only $30 or $40. A study in the Journal of Medical Toxicology estimated that the poison centers saved the State of Arizona alone $33 million a year. Louisiana eliminated its centers in the 1980s but restored them when it realized how much money they saved.

Right…I agree. So isn’t it in the insurance company’s interest to fund them? I stated in my post I agreed they save money and lives. Since the federal level is only funding 20% of them, why can’t states figure out how to pick the rest up, even, as I suggested, by taxing insurance companies.