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Originally Posted by zimmy
In all cases, the bill is somehow paid. If the hospital covers it, it is passed on to everyone in their hospital bills. If the hospital uses the losses as a write-off- the tax revenues are made up somewhere else (or put on the credit card of our kids), if the insurance companies pay a surcharge- it affects our insurance rates.
In any case, I do think the constitutionality of the health care law treads a thin line, but so does passing off the cost of the uninsured to everyone else and that is established by prior practice for decades.
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A good point made today on Morning Joe, have you every known anyone who didn't use health care in their lifetime?
David Brooks had a good opinion piece yesterday...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/op...ef=davidbrooks
-spence