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

Yeah. The root cause isn't greed, or crooked hospitals or insurance companies. It's the simple truth that people get sick and we have amazing technology to treat that sickness. And it's expensive.

I worked with a guy who was bitching about a $20k bill he got from the hospital. He had insurance. But he also weighed 400 pounds and almost died. They saved his life and he was bitching about paying 1/2 of what he paid for his car. Our mindset is a big part of the problem.