This is a nice idea but who funded the hospital? If it was funded solely by donations, this is a great idea but if everyone else was forced to pay far higher rates, then this was just another form of stealing.
This was a hundred years ago. They probably didn’t lose money on that plan. I wasn’t advocating what they did then for now. I was pointing out the free people will come up with innovative solutions to their problems that the expert central planners could never dream of.