When irateplatypus talks about "entitlement" to a "certain level of health care", it most certainly begs the question of healthcare as a fundamental human right, especially in a first-world country such as mine. Although there are certain levels in healthcare now, my guess is that the greatest gap is between the insured and uninsured, and emergency room care is the 700-pound gorilla on the back of health care providers such as HMOs.
I'm presently uninsured, for the first time in my adult life, and it makes me very uneasy.
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