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Those people that are against health care reform because they feel they have the best health care available to them without reform have never been stranded in an emergency room overcrowded with ill people that have no other health care available to them outside of the emergency room.

Now why don't they understand that a lot of these sick people overflowing the emergency rooms because they have no other health care may very well have highly contagious illnesses that may be spread to THEM as they are treated in an emergency room? And then there is the issue of the emergency room medical personnel being overworked and greatly fatigued by caring for countless uninsured sick people in these overcrowded emergency rooms. And then these medical doctors and nurses come to the fully insured person laying on a gurney facing possibly a LIFE AND DEATH situation and because of overwork and exhaustion caring for the under and uninsured people in these overcrowded emergency rooms the care provided may be substandard at best and may actually cause a death because of these ongoing overcrowded conditions caused by under/uninsured sick people that have no choice but the emergency room to receive ANY care whatsoever. And do you think the hospitals treating these under/uninsured people just do it for FREE? NO, they pass all unpaid services and supplies onto the fully insured patients. Now what do you think that does for the costs of those with adequate medical coverage? The fully covered patients wind up paying the costs of those that come into the emergency rooms without health care coverage. And do you know the cost of emergency room care compared to a doctor's visit in an office? Do you think that would be less expensive then paying for these sick people to wait until they are so ill that they have no choice but to go to the emergency room for their health care needs? You don't have to be an economist to figure this out.

Health care reform will bring sanity to the emergency rooms of our country and make it possible for those of us with good medical coverage to ACTUALLY RECEIVE the care in the emergency room that will SAVE OUR LIVES!!!! But even with that being the case there are numerous people that THINK their health care benefits are fine without ANY reform. Why can't they have the foresight to know that there may come a time when they are rushed by ambulance to an emergency room and are exposed to contagious illnesses that they would NEVER have been exposed to had health care reform provided needed medical care for those now overflowing our emergency rooms. Perhaps they don't even care that the medical doctors and nurses in these overcrowded emergency rooms are overworked and exhausted from coping with an endless stream of ill people that would have been handled in a doctor's office had adequate medical coverage been available through needed reform of our health care system as it is today. These exhausted and overworked doctors and nurses in these overcrowded, endless seas of ill patients that have no other health care available to them may VERY WELL cause the death and even serious mistakes and delays in life providing care for those that don't want to see reform take place. PEOPLE WAKE UP AND FACE REALITY!!!! Even if you have all the medical coverage you could possibly want the day may arrive where you are rushed to the ER and find the care provided you because of the endless overcrowded conditions from people that could have been seen by a doctor in a doctor's office had health care reform taken place are now putting your VERY LIFE AT RISK!!! Are you REALLY comfortable with that reality of our health care as it is today? WE NEED REFORM and NOT just for the benefit of the un and underinsured but for all of us!!! Reform will bring needed, long overdue change into our system of health care and improve medical conditions and care for ALL OF US!!!!

Do we want health care reform that will provide proper medical care for all of those now overcrowding our emergency rooms or do we want to continue to play Russian Roulette when it comes time for us or someone we love to be rushed to the emergency room with a life threatening condition? Reform is desperately needed even for those that have ALL the health care coverage they think they will ever need.

(UPDATE) Proposition 99 passed and 98 failed to pass so perhaps this will give at least a bit of protection to those homeowners living in the trailer parks on fixed incomes keeping them from becoming homeless and going without many other needs being met because of ever increasing rents on the space where their home sets.