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@janetadamy #supremecourt @louiseradnofsky: Ginsburg cites friend-of-court brief on how uncompensated care in Maryland raised consumers’ costs by 7%.

NOT having govt. healtcare in Maryland raised costs by 7%?

146 posted on 03/27/2012 1:19:34 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)

RE :”NOT having govt. healtcare in Maryland raised costs by 7%?”

Maryland taxes hospital bills of those that pay their bill to reimburse the hospitals for the care of the uninsured. So they know how much it costs. 7% is possible.

On one hand it's more honest than just stiffing the hospitals as the popular (both parties) Federal Mandate on emergency room care was designed to do; but it would have made more sense to have raised a tax that those uninsured (many are illegals) would be paying too like a sales tax.

This cost in no way justifies Obama-care.

150 posted on 03/27/2012 7:30:56 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : "I will just make insurance companies give you health care for 'free, What Mandates??' ")