@DiversityDriven,
That's the point - we are paying for everyone that needs it through medicare and medicaid.
Your figures are exaggerated as well - it's 47 million and 12 million are illegals and they have first rate treatment when needed!
Health care is a major discussion around here. I don't know what the answer is but I know that a universal health care plan is a huge vacumn cleaner that sucks the taxes out of hard working citizens.
The doctors under UHC have a hard time because they can go elsewhere and make more money for less work.
Patients wait months for appointments. Quality goes out the window.
I want a good tax break for paying for my own health care. I want a choice in what doctor, hospital, etc I go to. I want my taxes lower, not higher so that I can pay for guy to go in and have his tattoo's removed!