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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: puborectalis who wrote (660555)7/2/2012 5:42:41 PM
From: i-node1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 1572349
 
>> There is no freedom of choice to neglect health insurance just like car insurance.

Of course there is, and there will continue to be. They're just going to tax you for doing it. And very large numbers of individuals and businesses will clearly opt to pay the tax and not buy insurance. I may cancel my ~15k/year policy and pay the tax. I get insurance for a fraction of the money.

>> ...it should be mandatory.Going to the ER for free adds a "tax" to the rest of us in our health premiums even without coexistent morbidities.

Yeah, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. You've been sucked in by the Big Lie -- that emergency departments are money losers. At least 1 in 7 ED visits results in an inpatient admission, and in some areas it is as high as 35%. Hospitals know this and they LOVE their emergency departments for it. In addition, most of the patients seen in the ER are insured or covered by government programs that cover their visits, which are highly profitable from the outset. Still others pay the bill out of their pocket. In the end, the ER is a very large economic contributor to hospital profitability, and THAT is why hospitals don't close their ERs today.

As a marketing ploy, it beats the hell out of billboards with pictures of doctors in their toga uniforms.
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