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**welihiedginly** · 07-05-2011, 07:05 AM

I haven't seen good numbers on how many without health insurance are that way by choice as opposed to necessity. Of course, those without healthcare drive up the cost of healthcare for everyone else (necessitating more rationing) when they require emergency care, but that's a mostly unrelated tangent. Anyway, there's a wikipedia article on this, so I can't possibly be wrong.

From Wikipedia:

David Leonhardt wrote in the New York Times in June 2009, that rationing presently an economic reality: "The choice isn’t between rationing and not rationing. It’s between rationing well and rationing badly. Given that the United States devotes far more of its economy to health care than other rich countries, and gets worse results by many measures, it’s hard to argue that we are now rationing very rationally."

More and better healthcare rationing in the United States, please.

07-05-2011, 07:05 AM	#6
welihiedginly Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	I haven't seen good numbers on how many without health insurance are that way by choice as opposed to necessity. Of course, those without healthcare drive up the cost of healthcare for everyone else (necessitating more rationing) when they require emergency care, but that's a mostly unrelated tangent. Anyway, there's a wikipedia article on this, so I can't possibly be wrong. From Wikipedia: David Leonhardt wrote in the New York Times in June 2009, that rationing presently an economic reality: "The choice isn’t between rationing and not rationing. It’s between rationing well and rationing badly. Given that the United States devotes far more of its economy to health care than other rich countries, and gets worse results by many measures, it’s hard to argue that we are now rationing very rationally." More and better healthcare rationing in the United States, please.
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