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That's ok because the emergency room has to treat you if you don't have insurance but don't mention single payer or those same people will flip out. Even though
by johnward 11y ago
That's ok because the emergency room has to treat you if you don't have insurance but don't mention single payer or those same people will flip out. Even though those costs are being passed on to the insured int he current setup.
- orangecat 11y agoUncompensated care in the US for 2013 was $85 billion (http://kff.org/uninsured/report/uncompensated-care-for-the-uninsured-in-2013-a-detailed-examination/ http://kff.org/uninsured/report/uncompensated-care-for-the-u...). Which may seem like a lot, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the total health care spending of $3.8 trillion (http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/02/02/annual-u-s-healthcare-spending-hits-3-8-trillion/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/02/02/annual-u-s-h...). The alleged problem of people deliberately not buying health insurance and then freeloading when they get sent to the emergency room just isn't a significant factor. But the ACA cleverly uses that as a pretense to force young and healthy people to pay far more than the fair market value for insurance policies, as a way to disguise subsidies to others.