The health care in this country is rationed. Only those who can afford insurance get health care, and we pay for everyone else's. The Emergency Department should be just that--for emergencies. Instead, it is forced to deal with--and staff for--those with no insurance because the law says they must treat everyone who presents with medical complaints. (Do you know how many of them give false names and addresses? billing expenses and collection efforts cost money too.) The state funds reimbursing hospitals for free care has run dry. Free care? don't make me laugh. We're all paying for it and all its ancillary costs.