[LauraleeBraswell]

Health insurance should be like car insurance. Everyone SHOULD HAVE TO HAVE IT. If you don't have it, then the government should bill you for it.

[jdm]

"Health insurance should be like car insurance. Everyone SHOULD HAVE TO HAVE IT. If you don't have it, then the government should bill you for it."

Lots of folks don't have car insurance (and never will have car insurance) and the government is not going to bill them for it. A government which bills people for car insurance is a government which has too much power (unless, of course, I'm hit by an uninsured motorist...). :)

[BartMan1]

This guy is 67 and has Medicare -- that is the insurance he gets, and he can't buy anything better in this country.

In fact, if this poor family wanted to pay privately for this expensive care, the hospital would be constrained from taking their money.

This is the bastardized 'insurance' we are all entitled to, and this is the kind of 'care' we are thus sentenced to.

I actually think this family has a fair shot at compelling this hospital to continue to provide care for this poor fellow. If they do, and if only a small number of families and patients took a similar tack, under current Medicare payment rules, the hospital industry could be bankrupted in a very short time.