Quote Originally Posted by MR.org
hospitals and physicians write off a portion of unpaid medical bills as charity/unpaid debt on their taxes each year....the rest is turned over to collections, which in turn makes the prices of medical procedures go up, prices on insurance go up, deductibles, etc.....point im getting at is there may be a minimal amount of your tax dollars that has anything to do with medical bills

so what you're saying is you would rather pay more taxes (b/c youre not going to get some kind of magical credit b/c hospitals dont have to write off losses now) for a medical system that has been proven inferior to ours, a system where your mother could wait 6 months or more for an mri to detect breast cancer while the cancer spreads and kills her, the mri she could get here in minutes.....seems like an obvious choice to me....but its people who dont educate themselves on the up's and down's of things like this that will cause this country to drive itself into the ground
One we are going to pay for it one way or another. Things that you think you won't pay for, believe we are paying for it somewhere else. There is a back door to every bill that is passed, it has always been that way and will alway be that way. Also what if my mom can't pay for that treatment, do you want to be the one that pays for it?