The Interconnectedness of Health Care Costs
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on August 6th, 2010 in Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
If you are uninsured and cannot pay for life-saving emergency medical services, who gets stuck with the bill?
A lot of people… doctors, hospitals, insured individuals, businesses, and taxpayers. One of the reasons for rising premiums for the insured is that they are paying for the uninsured.
Do we want to stick with the status quo… or do we want to live in a society where the uninsured are simply not treated at all… or do we want to move toward shared responsibility? Unfortunately, without the individual mandate, we are back to square one. Welcome back, status quo.
Fighting the Individual Mandate… read the article:
The Interconnectedness of Health Care Costs
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