The cost of medical service provision in the United States is one of the
most palpable strains on the healthcare system, but we must not forget
that cost is the sibling of quality and access—without considering the
three as such, we will undoubtedly fail to navigate our country’s
healthcare quandary. Low quality care inevitably results in the need for
more care in the form of readmissions, while lack of access to primary
care leads to increases in the utilization of expensive, emergency
services. Of particular concern in our country, a growing contributor to
cost, and driven by low quality care and even less access to that care,
is the systematic exclusion of undocumented patients. This was made
very clear to me through the example of a single suffering patient, Mr.
Gomez.
http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/09/30/it-costs-nothing-to-care-why-we-need-to-provide-health-insurance-for-undocumented-people/
