Argument: Emergency hospital visits of the uninsured is a manageable problem

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Michael Tanner and Michael Cannon, of the CATO institute. “Universal healthcare’s dirty little secrets”. Los Angeles Times. April 5th, 2007 – “Finally, some suggest that when people without health insurance receive treatment, the cost of their care is passed along to the rest of us. This is undeniably true. Yet, it is a manageable problem. According to Jack Hadley and John Holahan of the left-leaning Urban Institute, uncompensated care for the uninsured amounts to less than 3% of total healthcare spending — a real cost, no doubt, but hardly a crisis.”