[Miss Marple]

Well, I know that the hospitals in my area are treating everyone who walks in the door. They will bill your insurance company or Medicaid after the fact. If you can't make your payment, they will let you pay on the installment.

This constant whining about a shortage of nurses and such is because the nurses association, which tries to get more pay for them (not undeserved, may I say, since it is hard work)likes to emphasize the shortage. Also, some hospitals are in trouble because of high insurance premiums on hospitals due to TRIAL LAWYERS.

What you "know" is a compilation of democrat talking points. The facts are not nearly as grim as you portray them.

[liberallarry]

Neither the insurance company nor Medicaid will pay full cost and that says nothing about recovering the cost of servicing indigents - who arrive in significant numbers.

This constant whining about a shortage of nurses and such is because the nurses association, which tries to get more pay for them (not undeserved, may I say, since it is hard work)likes to emphasize the shortage.

You don't know what you're talking about. I'm on a local rural hospital board. We face the problem of finding nurses on a daily basis.

Also, some hospitals are in trouble because of high insurance premiums on hospitals due to TRIAL LAWYERS.

Yes. Legal costs are a big problem which must be addressed. But they're not the major problem - which is that medical costs are INHERENTLY EXPENSIVE. There's NO WAY a society can afford to provide needed and wanted services to everyone.

What you "know" is a compilation of democrat talking points.

What I know comes from a couple of years of volunteer service on the Board of Directors of a small rural hospital (in a very Republican district)- trying to keep it viable. It's a hell of a lot more than you know.

What we've concluded is that the only way to save the hospital is to raise local taxes. The alternative - closing the hospital - is far worse.