I don't really *get* the mandate thing at all.
If you don't have cash or insurance to pay for expensive in-patient hospital care how are you going to pay for it?
Whether hospital charges are a fair value or not isn't really the point -- people have to get paid for work or services provided.
If you are uninsured and not covered by Medicaid who do you expect to pay when you can't.
Free curbside body bag pick ups for the uninsured
