Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.

It got so bad I went into an emergency room. I didn't know which way was up.

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.