The increased cost of health care isn't based upon those who refuse to pay. That's rhetoric. It's based on lawyers, law suits, and those who want to get rich of the system. Truly horrible things can happen to innocent victims, but exhorbitant awards are creating havoc on our health care.
I don't go to the doctor because I'm sick of waiting in the waiting room for an hour while people take their infants in for the fouth time this month for amoxicillan for continued ear infections or the like. When the baby still cries and the mom comes back for the fifth time, surgery is scheduled to insert drains. Some people will badger a doctor until something is done...even if that somthing isn't helpful because they think they have some kind of in-born right for illness not to happen to them.
I'm fed up. We get sick, we die. Sometimes there's nothing we or anyone else can do about it. I am not willing to pay for people's free ride anymore...I'm just not!
I never wrote that the increased or increasing costs of healthcare is because of those who refuse to pay. I believe that I implied or stated that your costs increase when there are those who refuse to pay. That is to say, if they paid their share,yours would be less.
Overall. I agree, health care costs are a sum of all of the costs associated with a complex industry. Lawyers are a part of it but so are the fact that you and I are dealing with a difficult customer base, sick people.
Bull's-eye.