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I get kind of tired of this response. Quite of a few conservatives think most of these issue can be reduced to a question of abuses reducing efficiency, when they can't be.
The majority of people who go to the emergency room, and the most expensive to care for, need to be there to live and/or be functional in society. There's no easy way out of that. Similarly, the longevity of most appliers continuing reliance on unemployment benefits derive from the general lack of opportunities and the need to take a serious loss in assets and long term investments in order to pursue the remaining ones, not from laziness.
Seriously, if reducing abuses could solve these problems, we would have done it already.
Agree with Samsmart in spirit, but I would have to hear his reasoning on the sales tax first.
Actually, she's right. My best friend works in a hospital and the ER is abused much more often than it is used (properly).