re: JBE's Medicaid Expansion is going to rape Louisiana's budget situation

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, it would result in these former Medicaid patients going to emergency rooms for every ache and pain.

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Or they could just go to urgent care and the regular physician like a smart person?

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every ER has signs all over the place saying you WILL BE TREATED REGARDLESS OF YOUR ABILITY TO PAY.

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Actually this is one reason why healthcare is so expensive in this country as healthcare is a commodity and a scarce good and when you force it to be sold to anyone and everyone, you create a more expensive market.

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Medicaid has its faults but some form of it is necessary because

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It's not necessary.

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a compassionate society has an obligation to care for truly indigent people and(2) we are going to end up paying for them anyway.

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shite like this is why entitlements are eating up the federal budget and ballooning our debt past 20 trillion.