Truthmatters
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Someone will always have to pay. Hospitals, Doctors, Medical equipment companies, Pharmaceutical companies, Ambulance services and so on, they all have to make a profit. Currently the people who are uninsured get medical care at the emergency room. That cost is passed on to other insured patients to protect their profit. Their insurance may cover some of it and that is passed on the to all insured people.
the actual cost for the services you noted are inflated, many times enormously because the service is provided by for profit interests.
So in the end it matters not how it is packaged, someone will pay for the uninsured. Of course the uninsured cannot get preventive care and this causes the care they get when a preventable disease or illness to increase, increasing the cost to hospitals. Excellant point Interesting dilemma.
There is no easy button here. We could institute a ban on providing services to the uninsured, of course then you could have rotting bodies on the hospital sidewalks and it would take a Federal law to to do it.
My grandmother passed away at 102. Shortly before her death, she was put in an ambulance and driven from San Mateo Co through San Francisco and into Marin for an X-Ray. The bill to medicare was enormous, over $2,000 dollars. Within one mile of the Assisted Living housing where she was cared for was a major hospital.
Thanks for highlighting the problems with government run healthcare
So you claim its NEVER done to insurance cos?