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Originally Posted by Robbie
crockett, you keep repeating this over and over. I've never heard of the govt. paying hospitals (which are private business run by huge corporations) anything.
But you keep claiming that. So I used this new fangled thing called "google" and typed in "does govt. pay for unpaid hospital bills"
Nope. Couldn't find one thing that said the govt. would ever pay a big hospital corporation for any losses.
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I have no dog in this fight ... as I am insurred when I am in the USA...
Here is an excerpt of an article of 2011 :
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Jack Hadley, senior health services researcher at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., pointed out that uninsured people are charged as much as two-thirds more than what insured people are charged because insurers are able to negotiate prices.
His research has found that privately insured individuals don't end up paying higher premiums to make up for the uninsured because hospitals that serve lower-income families don't have a lot of patients with insurance. He said the government pays about 75% of those unpaid hospital bills either by direct payment or through a disproportionate payment of Medicaid.
"It affects taxes, not premiums," he said. "The privately insured are still paying for it."
Up to $49 billion unpaid by uninsured for hospitalizations - USATODAY.com
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Obviously, someone has to pay for it , either the hospital ( that would then increase rates of services provided to compensate ), the governement , individuals ( going bankrupt ), ....
Meanwhile, back to net neutrality , why are republicans against what the majority of the public wants ? They always say that they want the gov out off people business .... ????