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kane · 03-24-2010, 05:36 PM

I was wondering today about something and was unable to find the answer. In theory this new health care bill, if it eventually is fully enacted, would end a lot of unpaid medical bills at emergency rooms and urgent care centers. As it is now you can walk into an ER or urgent care center and they will treat you whether you have insurance or not. If you don't have insurance they will bill you. If you don't pay they will try to come after you, but eventually they will end up eating the cost and passing that cost onto other paying customers. In many of these situations the hospitals and urgent care centers are public facilities which means they rely heavily on tax money to run.

My question is how much money annually do these ER's and urgent care centers recoup from tax payers on behalf of unpaid medical bills?

In theory a lot of these non-payers will now have insurance so it should cut down on a lot of this. I'm just curious if anyone knows how much this total is.

03-24-2010, 05:36 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	Question about health care. Anyone know? I was wondering today about something and was unable to find the answer. In theory this new health care bill, if it eventually is fully enacted, would end a lot of unpaid medical bills at emergency rooms and urgent care centers. As it is now you can walk into an ER or urgent care center and they will treat you whether you have insurance or not. If you don't have insurance they will bill you. If you don't pay they will try to come after you, but eventually they will end up eating the cost and passing that cost onto other paying customers. In many of these situations the hospitals and urgent care centers are public facilities which means they rely heavily on tax money to run. My question is how much money annually do these ER's and urgent care centers recoup from tax payers on behalf of unpaid medical bills? In theory a lot of these non-payers will now have insurance so it should cut down on a lot of this. I'm just curious if anyone knows how much this total is.