[JayGalt]

I would love that. All the charity hospitals where I trained have been closed, victims of Hillary’s foray into healthcare & Romney care. Obamacare took out the last holdouts.

Charity care can regrow and should be nurtured and encouraged. It will not be there from Day 1 and we can’t count on it. Too many doctors offices and hospitals are giving up the ghost or merging into large conglomerates with cost centers and care rules.

When medicine is given back to patients & doctors, costs will decline and charity care will reemerge. The time saved from the overwhelming regulation compliance will be available for patient care.

[JimRed]

The time saved from the overwhelming regulation compliance will be available for patient care.

Yes, and eliminating paper pushers and compliance monitors would free up dollars for more medical staff.

[Ohioan]

The death of the charity hospitals to which you refer may have been recorded under the Clinton/Bush & Obama administrations; but the process really got underway, after LBJ's vast increase in Federal meddling in the 1960s. There was a sea change after that in medical care, as physicians office staffs gradually morphed into accounts receivable processing, from a prior emphasis on assisting in the diagnosis & treatment.

Patients, who before the advent of Medicare & Medicaid, would have been covered by the Hippocratic Oath, suddenly morphed into a new source of revenue. The psychological effect was enormous.