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hunter

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19. All those people are showing up in the ER because...

Reply to Mark.b2 (Reply #16)

Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:53 PM

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... they are not getting appropriate health care elsewhere.

A lot of people need to be in some kind of mildly supervised housing with on-site medical clinics.

We have heavily supervised housing with on-site medical clinics in the form of prisons, and a woefully inadequate supply of low income housing for people who can mostly take care of themselves, but there's not a lot of housing for people who are not criminal, not employable who end up living on the streets and frequenting hospital emergency rooms for all sorts of reasons.

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