http://www.reason.com/news/show/29303.html
According to a June 2003 report from the Institute of Medicine, the U.S. loses between $65 billion and $130 billion annually as a result of poor health and early death due to lack of insurance. The uninsured impose costs on the rest of us, too: A 2003 Kaiser Commission report to the Urban Institute estimated that uninsured Americans each year receive about $34.5 billion in uncompensated health care while paying $26.4 billion out of their own pockets.
The solution to this "problem" is not to impose a mandatory insurance requirement on all Americans . . . it's to eliminate government-run hospitals and government-mandated emergency care requirements for hospitals entirely. Medical facilities should be run as private businesses, and charity care can be provided at the hospital's discretion however it sees fit.