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Originally Posted by Matty81
Man... the number of times those folks with unmanaged/badly managed complex health issues come in to your local ED or even end up as inpatients is immense before they end up dead. Very few folks die quickly from badly managed chronic conditions, they just suffer along and consume a lot of health care. Not necessarily the case that free prescriptions are going to result in them taking better care of themselves as sometimes its hard to just get them to take the drugs even when you give them out for free, but it's something - huge factor in overcrowded hospitals and ED dpts right now are badly managed chronic conditions and unavailability of long term care beds
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A person living in full care for 10 years far wipes away all of the ER visits and admissions. I'm not suggesting these things don't matter, I'm suggesting that using "money saved" is wrong and it will not save you money, which is entirely not the point of healthcare