Reply #25: 'Medi-stop' clinics are great, but they're not a substitute for insurance

[LeftCoast]

What Stossel fails to realize is that we all pay higher costs because of uneven health care coverage. People that have long-term health problems such as diabetes or hypertension (high blood pressure) can ring up massive hospital bills if they don't get regular treatment. Hypertension for example, when untreated, leads to heart attacks, kidney failure, stroke. Any one of these can trigger an ER visit which will quickly lead to huge costs with the added insult of a poor outcome for the patient.

Even though the patient can't pay, those costs don't just vanish. They're passed on to all of us, either through higher premiums or through taxes.