To expand on that point, if a patient shows up at an emergency room with cancer, the emergency room will only make sure that the person's vital signs are stable and then they will send them home. They will not treat the cancer. If a person goes to the emergency room in diabetic shock, the emergency room personnel will only stabilize that person's vital signs and send them home. They will not provide the patient with a program and medications for correcting the diabetes.

Anyone who thinks people can get their medical needs met in emergency rooms simply has not ever had to deal with not having insurance.