--- Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Thursday 06 September 2007, Leo Mauler wrote:
And if an uninsured American needs basic care, they don't go *anywhere*, or they go help shut down their local hospital by getting extremely expensive E.R. care for which they can't afford to pay.
Please explain how the E.R. care costs the hospital anything. Just because they bill a large amount doesn't mean it's justified.
I'm not sure I understand the concept of proving that a business that hands out their expensive products for free is losing money on the transaction. "Self-evident" is the word that springs to mind.
E.R. care isn't just a doctor and two nurses waving their hands and saying "Let him be healed!", they are using material goods and stressing out the parts of machines to accomplish their goals. If the bills for those goods go unpaid by the uninsured, even you should agree that this has cost the hospital something. Even if we toss out doctor and nurse salaries (as many hospitals have been forced to do), the rest of the requirements for care are still there and still need to be paid for.
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