I understand fully your arguement.
But, there are other elements to the problem we all know exists.
Hospitals continue to raise prices, claiming the “uninsured” drive costs up. I personally doubt this claim (at least where I live). One of the Hospital systems that makes this claim spends MILLIONS buliding huge mega hospitals trying to “corner” the market so to speak.
They have systematically bought small “neighborhood” hospitals. It seems they have been positioning themselves to become the Government Hospital of Choice for the Fed mandated patients.
My point with this is that the uninsured, granted cost the insured. But the largest cost to the insured is the hospitals and Docs that raise costs to cover non-patient activities. It’s sort of like education. The rising cost of edu is not student related. It is all about the unions and non edu activities.
We as a people are demanding that the Government be accountable and end the days of spending on unneccessary projects.
We should demand the same of hospitals as well. Ofcourse they will make the arguement that they are “private” entities. But, without Medicare/medicaid, private ins, they would be out of business.
I hope I am making myself clear. But, thee is much more to the high cost of med care and increased ins premiums than the uninsured.
When the law was passed to make denial of care illegal, some not all took it as a green light to milk the system.
It became the catchall excuse for raising costs.
Before we deny care to anyone, we must demand that care providers become accountable to the public. That ofcourse is best handled at the local/state level.
Good points. I keep saying the only way to solve our problems is for everybody to go back to Sunday School. In the meantime, we have been saved from this atrocious bill by our Constitution and someone who respects it. Let’s hope it holds.