Quote from KavonTrebor:
I think the conservatives like a system where part of everyone's premium goes to pay for the free health care that some people get at the emergency room.
That way this hidden tax is not called a tax and Conservatives don't like taxes.
Some hospitals guess that this amounts to 20+% of everyone's premium and is going up as more people lose insurance.
Or since this lack of insurance kills about 20000 people a year, it makes the "party of life" happy?
KT
So my premium goes down 20% if we quit giving free care at the emergency room? That gets my vote. Tell ya' what lefty, next Saturday go stand at the door of any big city hospital ER and offer to pay the tab for every busted up gang banger being brought in. You can save them on your dime, not mine. Me...I'd just as soon see em' bleed out and die in the street.