To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; alancarp; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3
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??' ")
To: sickoflibs
151 posted on
03/27/2012 7:44:35 PM PDT by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: sickoflibs; alancarp; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3
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.A sales tax might do it, but of course that would be "regressive" and might have trouble passing in Maryland.
This cost in no way justifies Obama-care.
My view is that government programs usually waste more than they "save."
152 posted on
03/27/2012 8:58:05 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.)
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