Courageous wrote:

>>Why do you think they don't? What part of the public
>>*never* uses hospital services sometime in their life
>>in the US? So long as "the public" uses hospital services,
>>the public picks up the tab for uncompensated services a
>>hospital is forced by statute to provide.

> Suurrrre. Tell that to the insolvent hospitals.

Who picks up the tab when a business goes bankrupt?
Another segment of the public, that's who.

> I might also recommend that one should not act shocked
> when the price of healthcare goes up.

That's not the solitary reason which, if you're not
braindead, you already know. That being said, yes,
increase to healthcare costs is partly due to caring
for all in an emergency, but the proportional increase
due to that reason reflects 1) some degree of random
variation arising out of accident rates over the
short term and 2) the rate of increase of a destitute
aging population. In short, it is not the cause for a
runaway increase in healthcare costs.