Obama Mercy Hospital

[zdunklee]

Because then a company is actually paying that bill instead of it more than likely not being paid. It is the same as requiring auto insurance, do you have a problem with that as well (you should because it is the same thing), or would you rather have higher insurance rates for your car because the guy who rear ended you didn't have insurance or money to pay for your damages?

It is a known fact that insurance rates are higher for autos in the few states that still make it optional to have.

The problem here, to me, is who's going to be paying the bill. You do realize that our national debt is around 12 trillion dollars and increasing every day, right? The amount that each person (man, woman AND child) "owes" in order to pay it off is preposterous.

If you sold a car to someone, would you be willing to take a personal check from them even if you knew they were overdrawn, up to their eyeballs in bad debt, and is experiencing spotty employment? If I were a hospital administrator, I'd be leery of trying to collect money from an entity like that. I don't see how it's a major improvement over what we have now.. either way, it's going to be difficult to collect payment.

Difficult is still better than impossible like it is now, a hospital can't do anything but send a bill to collections and if the people are poor already that means nothing and is just an added cost the hospital ends up dealing with.