Obama Mercy Hospital

[Philly Mike]

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.

Right.. but our government isn't any more well off, is it? So, either the government "makes" more money (thereby dramatically increasing inflation) or cuts more services in order to fund this one. With a system like this in place, there's going to be a LOT more money needed to be taken in to pay for it.. so people will be bringing home a lot less money after taxes even as the price of everything from gas to food to entertainment rises at incredible rates. That doesn't sound sustainable to me.

And if, as I've heard, it's electable to have government coverage, do I have to pay that much more in taxes after I've already have a chunk taken out for my own insurance coverage from my employer? Because that really doesn't sound good to me.. maybe I've got it wrong though. Perhaps someone could set me right.

People are going to pay for their own government health insurance, why would there be any extra taxes like that. The free insurance program will still cover about the same amount of people as it did before anyway and those are run by the states themselves anyway. and as far as the government not being better off, it is't really worse off either, and more people will be able to afford health insurance they otherwise wouldn't be able to get. The point of this isn't to make the government better off it is to make it better for the people themselves that need health insurance. That's the big picture here. It isn't to generate more money or take over the entire health care system in the country. They are trying to actually make it so it is easier for people to actually have health insurance. Any other costs that would be added by running this health insurance will be what is taken from the budget that the government pays the hospitals themselves and those numbers are already in the billions. The reason they can do this is because the hospitals will be saving on those billions because people will actually have the health insurance and the insurance company will be paying the bills of these people that would otherwise be uninsured.