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Beers with our Founding Fathers
One of the issues of healthcare is the cost to taxpayers for every
person treated in an emergency room. It is not necessary for every
sniffle or non-threatening injury to be treated at the emergency
room. However, through federal regulations taxpayers funds will
only pay for emergency room visits; not visits to an urgent care or
similar non-emergent clinic (which may be, quite literally, the same
bed classified differently). This would save thousands of taxpayer
monies per person per visit. Nationalized anything does not solve
that applicable problem. The important concept in seeking
solutions is that it is not the government’s funds, payments,
subsidies or programs – replace 'government' with 'taxpayer' or take
ownership, you already have taxpayer responsibility and use ‘my’
instead of ‘government or ‘taxpayer’. In doing so, perhaps the
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