re: Study: significant increase in patients who can't afford to pay full hospital bill

Fox and their right wing friends have really done an incredible job of hiding the core of the GOP healthcare plan when people like the OP are posting threads like this condemning the ACA when the replacement in the pipeline is set to make this specific problem of high deductibles much worse. By design mind you. As higher deductibles are a core tenant of GOP reform.

And the Conservative darling Rand Paul is deeply devoted to such reform pathways as well.

If the concern is total out of pocket expenses for the consumer, we are heading in a direction where the opposite is scheduled to take place.