What I’d like to know from people like you is why you insist on distorting our current system to make such a phony and disingenuous argument.
When a person who doesn’t have insurance needs emergency care, they are treated immediately at the emergency room. Once that is over and done with, the subject of the bill comes up. Those who don’t have the fee on site (most) are given time to pay or this wonderful thing we like to refer to as a payment plan.
Everyone who gets treated has to give a social security number. You wouldn’t be trying to protect people who don’t have social security numbers by lumping everyone else who doesn’t carry insurance in with them, would you?
So, how about it? Do you rail on about how everyone with a credit card is having ‘the rest of us’ pay their bill? How about the unforgivable sin of taking out a mortgage or a car loan? Hmm??
“Since 1983, New York State has set aside a pool of money to underwrite a portion of the uncompensated care costs incurred by hospitals. Initially termed the Hospital Bad Debt and Charity Care (BDCC) Pool and more recently the Hospital Indigent Care Pool (the Pool), this Pool currently distributes $847 million in Medicaid funds to public and voluntary hospitals through multiple sub-Pools and multiple allocation formulas.”