Healthcare 101

Someone smarter and less lazy than myself (yes, these people exist) needs to do a cost analysis on the difference between having to pay for people to go to the emergency room because they have no health insurance and simply providing universal health insurance. I don't know how close those numbers will be, but if they're in the same hemisphere I feel like THAT'S where we should start any debate on the realities of healthcare. Anything else I feel would somehow be willfully less-than-true.