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if so, why should any patient pay the bill to the hospital?

• techslave 8y ago
  "never get paid" means: by the care recipient. obviously someone pays ... it's spread across all who do pay their bills. and you should pay your bill because the hospital will sue you for it. it's only when the debt is finally uncollectible that it gets absorbed.
• amerine 8y ago
  Because as a society we know it’s cheaper to treat early and often rather than deal with emergencies 80% of the time. Also, I agree with you, but likely from a different place. No individual should be paying a hospital bill, it should be included in a tax on my income. If I have lots of income I pay for lots of people, maybe an astounding amount, if I have little to no income I depend on my wealthy neighbors to cover me. Seems to me like the only way to go, that or I guess the rich get eaten.
  • taobility 8y ago
    following this logic, we shouldn't get salary from our daily work. Everyone is working for the country, and the country would take care you everything, education, healthcare, housing etc. Yes, this is called communism. And China has tried that in 1950s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward), which is even better, that you don't even need to cook for yourself, as the community would provide a public cafe for free. But it proved that's not working.
    • twtw 8y ago
      This slippery slope argument is valueless. It's perfectly possible to have socialized healthcare without communism.
      • taobility 8y ago
        why healthcare is different with housing, education and food? If I don't have safe place to live, enough food to eat, I will get sick inevitable.
• zzzeek 8y ago
  why should I pay my income taxes when someone living below the poverty line doesn't pay any?