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Originally Posted by Armistead
Take a visit to your local emergency room at a state run hospital. If someone is ill with no insurance and runs to a regular private doc, guess where they send them to get help. Guess what cost more. My daughter is a social worker at Baptist in Winston Salem NC, she signs all these people up. If someone is ill, she tells them to keep going and getting help regardless until you run up 6K in bills so you can get medicare, then the Doctors will take time to treat a chronic illness. Obvious you have to spend yourself into poverty first, no equity in a home, ect....many then put it off longer, but end up sicker, just go bankrupt, then qualify.
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The hospital can absorb these unpaid costs. These are passed on to the folks who are paying for insurance. So tell me, why does it cost more? To cover those that do not have coverage?
As far as running yourself into poverty: My wifes' aunt without any insurance had a gastric bypass surgery performed. When done she was put on a payment plan that she could afford.