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Originally Posted by GregE
While I don't necessarily disagree with your overall premise, the problem is that not everyone can afford healthcare and/or health insurance. And when they can't, it's you and I (as taxpayers) who get hit with the big ass bills instead of the comparatively small ones.
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That's the part I don't get.
Does the Federal govt. take our taxes and pay privately owned hospitals for the bills that some people can't pay? I've never heard of that.
But I keep seeing that same argument made that we all are somehow paying for people who didn't pay their hospital bill.
My argument is...if the Federal govt. would stop holding hands with the medical industry and allowing them to price gouge us, we wouldn't NEED insurance (except for catastrophe)
We never needed to have insurance before. I was born in the 1960's. Became an adult in the late 1970's.
Was a young man in the 1980's.
Trust me, if you are my age or older...you know damn well that this is a big ripoff. $50 for a dixie paper cup to drink water in the hospital?
CM had her appendix removed in 2011. That cost over $20,000 !!!!! And she didn't even stay overnight in the hospital.
In 1985 I had a stepson with my first wife. He had his appendix removed, but it had ruptured all the way. 3 day hospital stay in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla
Total cost? $3,500
We paid it out of pocket.
"Healthcare" should have been about tort reform, breaking the deal that the govt. made with Big Pharma, and starting Congressional investigations into the shady world of hospital billing and insurance company scams.