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  <updated>2008-07-28T10:12:58-04:00</updated>
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    <title>The ER: How health insurance parasites make money by keeping us waiting</title>
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    <published>2008-07-28T06:58:19-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-28T10:12:58-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>DCblogger</name>
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    <category term="In Sickness and In Health" />
    <category term="Department of Stop it! You&#039;re killing me!" />
    <category term="emergency rooms" />
    <category term="ER" />
    <category term="health insurance parasites" />
    <category term="healthcare" />
    <category term="hospitals" />
    <category term="NHS" />
    <category term="single payer" />
    <category term="UK" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2008/07/how-hospitals-are-killing-er-patients.html">How hospitals are killing E.R. patients</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Keep in mind that divert status has nothing to do with being insured! Some of the reasons are: 1. <strong>Because emergency rooms can't refuse treatment, they lose money on the uninsured, and many hospitals are closing their emergency departments</strong>; 2. Patients who are uninsured or underinsured use emergency rooms for primary care and/or wait until their conditions get serious, thus ending in emergency.</p>
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