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Originally Posted by kane
Well the technical answer is that they go to the ER and get treatment then the don't pay and that cost gets passed on to everyone else. If those hospitals are publicly funded then much of the cost gets passed on the tax payers.
The more philosophical side of this is should we give these people treatment? If someone walks into the ER and needs care and has no insurance should they be turned away?
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No they should not be turned away at all. But the morality of the issue does not fall on the tax payer it falls on the hospital itself. The next philosophical questions should be, should a person be held at gun point to pay for a strangers health care?