This isn’t for not seeing a doctor until the last minute. This study is of people being admitted for emergencies like falling off of a ladder or getting into a car crash. Despite their best intentions (and I believe a lot of anti-reform people are generally afraid of the costs and are not just defending a corrupt insurance industry), those fighting against a public option are fighting to kill people. The economy is in the toilet, but this has to happen.
It’s time to move beyond the forces of good vs. the insurance industry and the teabaggers. There’s a lot of room for a rational debate on cost controls and preventative medicine within the framework of universal coverage. Beneath the yelling and fear-mongering, Republicans have a lot of valid points about interstate competition and malpractice litigation, so lets get that in the bill and move this thing forward.
