What’s your take on this? I think it’s about something yet to be done, and not something that has been done.
If the Senate doesn’t go along, then a filibuster will kill this.
The current healthcare system has me paying for the emergency-room/indigent patients through hospitals dividing their costs among all payers in their billings. Doctors do the same. In short, you’re either covered or those who are covered pay for you, in reality.
Using 25 million as the number of uncovered, and that is about 1/12th of the nation, then that means that our medical bills are over by about 1/12th for “charitable care”.
We are already paying it. What’s wrong with that? Nothing that I can see. In fact, one would expect those without coverage to be reluctant to use “charitable care”.
The real savings in medical care then would come in ending defensive medicine which forces doctors to order 2-3 tests or medicines instead of just one that would do the job.
This is about raw power, sidestepping the constitution to create a new national right without going through the amendment process.
They don't give a crap how much it costs, as evidenced by the trillions of debt this will cause. They don't care that this will be the straw that breaks the dollars back.