I often hear this canard from some politicians on the right: ”Everyone has health insurance in this country – you can just go to the emergency room and get treated.” Putting aside that it’s much more expensive to treat people in the ER for problems that a regular visit to a primary care physician could have caught early, there is a more serious consequence for people without health insurance. They die earlier than people who have coverage. Decades of studies (and a little common sense) bear this out:
