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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (168)	1/15/2005 10:27:02 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

David, my reply was to your statement that people who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid could get treatment at ANY county hospital in America, and I am telling you those people do not get a free ride on the health care train. Nobody said they CAN or SHOULD get a "free ride". What I said is they can get "treatment". And excellent treatment, at that. They are billed, and usually billed for substantially greater amounts than their insured counterparts. Actually, the law requires that the be billed precisely the same amounts. What they don't get is repricing. I would have no complaint with legislation to correct this problem -- requiring repricing or "cost-shifting" for self-pays. If they have property and/or wages and if they do not pay, liens and/or garnishments will be forthcoming. As they should. People with property who owe money for medical care should be required to pay their bills. This is no different than if they owe me money, or you money, or back taxes, or owe money to the local utility company. Judgments and liens are the means by which creditors collect money from debtors who have money/property. Were it not for this process, a person who had a million dollar equity in a piece of real estate but no health insurance could be treated without paying up a nickel. "There is no real perfection".