re: 'Universal' health care will NEVER work

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Public spending is much higher when you pay ER prices for office visit issues.

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Medicaid users are the worst offenders. When I worked in a pharmacy I can't tell you how many times somebody with medicaid came in with a RX for something they could have bought OTC for 7 dollars but decided to go to the ER on the tax payer dime and fill the RX version for 10x the cost to the taxpayer. So instead of spending $7 of their own money they spend 1k worth of tax payer money.