[Graybeard58]

Shifting costs from the hospitals directly to the tax payers. Yeah, that's the solution.

[bayourod]

Follow the money trail. Look at who ends up with the money in their pockets and you will find who is really behind government welfare programs. It isn't the poor, they don't have the political clout.

Example: The Food Stamp program is not administered by HEW but rather by the Agriculture Department, and comes under the agriculture committees in Congress because it's the farmers who eventually stick the dollars in their pockets.

Subsidized housing is promoted by builders and realty investment firms because they pocket the money. The fact that poor people benefit is just an excuse.

Medicare and Medicaid benefit wealthy doctors, hospital corporations and others in the medical industry.