re: #158 albusteve

yours…it’s no mystery…in the end it all comes out of your pocket

At the end of the day it’s already coming out of your pocket. Since we as a country have decided that we won’t let anyone die in the gutter because they cannot pay for medical care.

When someone walks into the ER deathly ill and has no insurance, they receive treatment anyway. When they cannot pay, the hospital ends up eating the cost themselves. And by “eating the cost” I mean raising their prices for paying customers (read: you).

So the question is, how do you want to pay for the healthcare you are already providing to those without insurance? Do you want to pay for their $7,000 ER bill when they come down with pneumonia and call 911? Or do you want to help subsidize their health insurance, so they can afford to pay for a $200 doctors office visit when their flu hasn’t yet turned to pneumonia?

The choice is yours. But remember that either way the cost is being passed along to you.