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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
The patient will get medical care and be billed for it. If he can never pay - bankruptcy or just refuses to pay, other patients who pay cash or have insurance pay for it through higher billing.
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I see that the threads so far, suggest that we already have socialized medicine of sorts. We all pay for it. "Single payer" for the debts that insurance companies and Medicare won't pay for. So it seems not to be a question of whether we pay for it but rather, how. Medical insurance companies and Medicare dictate certain prices. Or at least, bargain for them with some economic clout. In an ocean of costs that are inflated to cover the 'free' medical care that nobody pays for. Ultimately, we pay for that. Do I have that right?