re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Too many people only see a clinic when they are taken to the Emergency Room for something that could have been treated a lot more cheaply with some basic therapy or prescriptions.

My mother was not taking the necessary medications for three months from her aneurysm surgery several years ago, for lack of money. She was only able to restart her medications when we sent her several thousand dollars.

Therapy and prescriptions often aren’t cheap, and are a good argument for socialised medicine.