Actually, the government is requiring that hospitals provide excellent medical care at great cost to the hospitals. Many patients are not covered by government programs, and medicaid pays only a small percentage of the actual cost of the care. That's why health care costs are rising out of control.
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Wrong!
At great cost to other patients who can either pay or have medical insurance that they help pay for at a significant rate.
On New years day I spent a total of 6 hours in the waiting room and two hours in the emergency treatment section, had two x-rays and one MRI, and spent 2 hours hooked up to monitoring equipment, and was spoken to for 5 minutes at a time by three different doctors (shift change).
By mistake they lost my health insurance information and sent me a bill: total $6000 +
No way anybody can convince me that I got that amount of treatment.