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To: i-node who wrote (687853)	12/11/2012 9:27:15 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588199

"Someone was always paying for it (the one exception being physicians who agree to see patients at no charge out of the bottom of their hearts, a not insignificant item; now, these will be seen at taxpayer expense)" As a tax expert, tell me this please......when a physician bills your insurance company, eg $100, and the insurance co. pays a pre-established fee say for 50$ and the patient pays a copay of $10, the physician has a write-off appear on his bill for $40. Question is.....does the physician use that write off as a deduction(business expense) to reduce his taxable income..?

To: i-node who wrote (687853)	12/12/2012 12:56:04 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1588199

No one was EVER getting "health care for free". Someone was always paying for it (the one exception being physicians who agree to see patients at no charge out of the bottom of their hearts, a not insignificant item; now, these will be seen at taxpayer expense). I know that!! I was simply responding to Ten's way of making the point. You have already told us that they were getting the best health care in the world, so unless the health care provided to these people improves (not possible according to you), the cost is the cost right? Hospitals & ERs still have the same fixed cost burdens; massive new taxes will increase costs to those who do pay; Wait, so you are saying that hospitals were tucking the cost of caring for the uninsured before? and government intervention in private business is already taking a huge toll. What's the HUGE toll? "My president signed it into law, therefore it must be good" I never said that...the bill was a massive compromise and could have been a hell of a lot better...it could have provided for a public option for instance...or it could have cut private insurance profits out of it. Al