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

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This is why the mandate is a good idea IMO.

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I understand from a practical standpoint...but I just don't see it from a legality standpoint.

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You can't always control when you require healthcare. And we're not going to just let people die because they can't afford to be treated.

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I have no problem with people choosing NOT to have health insurance. that is their choice. However, if they go into the hospital with a serious illness, they should have to pay the consequences financially.
The truly poor that cannot afford? medicaid.

My problem with Medicaid and welfare and other entitlements is not the program themselves, so much as the waste and corruption attached to them. Put more people on to police that people that get it really do need it, and I think the extra people would pay for themselves.