The last I checked hospitals HAVE to
service people (by law) no matter what their ability to pay.

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Yes, and those highly inflated "emergency room" costs eventually become
bad debt. No problem for the hospital, they simply increase the cost of
services to everybody else who *can* pay to make up for it.

The strange aspect associated with all the yakking that "we shouldn't
have to pay for the health care for people who are too impoverished to
afford it or who work for employers who don't offer it......." is that
we *do*, already, pay for that health care through higher medical fees
and insurance premimums.