[Reagan Man]

Before folks had health insurance, if you went to the hospital and incurred charges, you owed the hospital a payment for services rendered. If you didn't pay the bill, the hospital would send a collection agent after you, or in some cases they would take you to court and sue you. That is still how things are handled today for Americans without health insurance.

The current policy of government intervention into the health care business has removed that standard old fashioned approach. Bottom line. Government has no business in the health care business. Period.

[Signalman]

Out here in CA, we have lots (thousands, millions?) of uninsured individuals who use Public Hospitals to take care of them because they have no other place to go. The Public Hospitals must treat them. And the taxpayers pay the bill.

So one way or another, those of us who have private insurance pay for those who don’t.