Reply #7: That is such BULLSHIT [View All]

[Warpy]

I don't know if anybody else here is in my position. I have been uninsured for 18 years and working in healthcare that entire time.

I know what things cost to uninsured people, and I know what they cost to insurance companies. There's a cost shift, all right, but these crybaby insurance companies are no longer bearing any of it.

The truth is that the uninsured in this country are charged three to five times what an insurance company is charged for the same services and medications. That means, boys and girls, that the insurance companies are being subsidized on the backs of those who are least able to pay. Health care companies WILL get paid. They put liens against property (including homes and cars), garnish savings accounts, garnish wages, and even throw people into jail if a payment is missed.

Some patients are indigent and can't pay that huge amount of cash. That's when the state steps in with Medicaid.

This yowling about the cost to the poor, pathetic insurance companies that uninsured people present is just that, more right wing yowling that obscures the fact that they're making a killing on not only the people they insure, but on the sick people they refuse to insure in the form of subsidies paid through grotesquely inflated prices.

This is insane.