> Excludes is an extreme view.
Excluding people from good health causes others to have poorer health. And compared to other countries, the USA does exclude people from proper health care.
> Anybody with the wit to stand in line can get free healthcare at an emergency room or local hospital.
There is so much wrong with this sentence.
To paraphrase someone else, you sound like someone who has not been kicked out of the emergency room for having the wrong kind of insurance. I found out later that it is illegal to do so, but since hospitals don't get compensated for nonpaying people(varying state by state), emergency rooms do anything not to provide it.
Emergency room care is not health care, it is patching you up until you can get health care. Last time I was in the emergency room, they put on a temporary cast, with a proper one to be put on Monday.
And lastly, emergency room care is the most expensive care available. Suggesting that taxpayers foot the bill of emergency rooms as an alternative to having taxpayers foot the bill of health care is one of the most insane ideas I've ever heard of.
> Some hunky-dory view of the world as full of free services for everybody does not.
Some hunky-dory view of the world making everything available via the free market would be nice if it actually worked that way.
