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Originally Posted by NiteRain
Speaking of only public hospitals:
The way the old system use to work. A person winds up in the ER, and he spends 5 days there, he is looking at a bill around 40,000 dollars. If he doesn't have insurance, you know who pays for him? You know what this guy does? Luckily the hospital is happy to tell him what he has to do to pay them back, and they have people there who specialize in getting you to the right place to help pay for this 40,000 dollar bill. In no time, the government is paying this 40,000 dollar bill. And who gives the government the money to pay this bill, you do. So now you are sitting here on a thread trying to justify that now you know it is getting taken out of your pocket, when it was being taken out of your pocket all along. Wait until you find out, that you paid twice as much as you should have on your taxes, you might end up learning about that 5 years from now.
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Noooo, but now it's only going to be coming out of the pocket of the people who make 250K a year or more. The other 99% are off the hook, the burden to pay for all the irresponsible people has been shifted to the top 1%. Problem fixed right? lol not.
In theory the whole " now people wont use the ER" sounds good but it isn't going to work that way. This will just result in more abuse and more fraud like medicade and instead of fixing the problem they will keep collecting more and more in taxes to throw at it.