re: #232 ggt

Yes, well, what I don’t get about this is that 99.9% (I assume) of us are born in to the system. In a hospital—we incur costs. WE have to be vaccinnated etc.

If we present at an ER without insurance, we still get a bill—no? Somehow we pay. Individuals and taxpayers.

The idea that we are being forced to buy anything seems an absurd argument. We already get the services and we pay (in a round about way).

What it comes down to is that the vast majority of those who do show up at ERs don’t pay, either their insurance pays and they get a small portion of it or they get a bill that gets ratcheted down due to the financial situation of the person who showed up. What’s taken out of the bill, if not the bill entirely due to non-payment, gets “eaten” by the hospital and passed on to other patients and their insurance companies in the way of increased costs.

So nobody can “opt-out” of healthcare, unless they die in some dark corner where nobody can find them. You eventually end up in the hospital, usually injured or deathly ill, and the cost of your care is picked up by those of us who carry insurance.