Reply #13: You should do some digging into the actual statistics. [View All]

[girl gone mad]

Uncompensated care accounts for a very tiny portion of health care costs, and almost half of all uncompensated care comes from insured patients. It's unlikely you are paying anything for an uninsured person's visit to the ER.

You also assume that uninsured people go to the ER when they get sick. In fact, most don't. This is actually one of the few market forces that's helped to contain health care costs - that is, so many uninsured people forgoing care altogether.

I have an uninsured relative who gets excellent health care in Mexico. Forcing him to purchase US health insurance is pointless and immoral. No one should be required to hand over money to those corrupt organizations.