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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (1939)9/1/2007 12:24:15 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
re: But the number of poor paying more than a token amount of their ER bills is too small to warrant consideration from a systems perspective.

I think you are totally wrong. Where you got the idea that hospitals and doctors just forgive bills is beyond me.

There is this:

That report uncovered widespread abusive debt collection tactics by the state's largest and wealthiest "safety-net" hospital system against patients without adqequate insurance. Y-NHH's tactics include garnishing wages, seizing bank accounts, foreclosing and placing liens on homes, forcing patients into bankruptcy and even arresting them, while refusing to provide millions of dollars in charity care to those in need.
hospitaldebtjustice.org

This:

Hospitals sock uninsured with much bigger bills
usatoday.com

I could post a bunch more but I have better things to do.

Here are the current "poverty" guidlines:
aspe.hhs.gov

I think you could double those numbers and still define those folks as poor.
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