Reply #98: The number in 2004 in a study in the NEJM put the conservative number at

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278 per day or over 100,000 per year and the authors admit that those numbers only include the cases that were admitted/documented and also didn't include those number of people who would have refused to go to the hospital in the first place due to worry over the cost and bills.

Here's a few facts about the USA system:

It is still the number one reason for foreclosure and has been the number one stated reason for foreclosures for decades. The NEJM published a study comparing access to emergency and specialists in north america and a few other key industrialized countries of similar size and diversity which have private health care delivery models. In terms of ER wait times and the amount of time it takes to see a specialist for life threatening conditions the USA scored below everyone I. The study. What purposed the authors was that Canada outscored us significantly on both of these markers despite paying less per capita, having higher overall operating costs, and fewer per capita ratios of specialists to patients. That's right, in Canada it takes less time to see a specialist or an ER doc and it costs half what it does us and everyone is in line.

I doesn't surprise me the a certain cat doesn't get this despite posting on health care posts regularly and despite others explain over and over while providing link after link showing how expensive, inefficient, and cruel the USA 1%er system is. It's either deliberately obtuse, diabolically devilishly advocative, or decidely and perhaps remuneratively shillic. Take your pick. The other theory I have is traumatic brain injury leading to a loss of short term memory encoding..