Quote:In defense of the ACA, this is what they were trying to address by requiring all Americans to be insured:  that people would use insurance for preventative care - say removing a stone-infested gall bladder involving an easy outpatient procedure -instead of going to the emergency room with a burst gall bladder and requiring 3 weeks in an ICU.

 

Which said uninsured patient would then skip paying, driving insurance up for the rest of us.

 

You want to know why that emergency room pill costs so much?  Because the uninsured can't afford to pay their emergency room bills.  Thus, they charge the insured enough to cover the bill, and most of the time, create a healthy albeit modest profit.

 

I understand what you are saying, but that huge percentage of buy to sell ratio should be illegal...For a pill that costs pennies or a fraction of a penny to be sold at $26 is undeniably price gouging...I can understand trying to recoup lost revenue, but grossly overcharging for services rendered like that is flat out wrong and should be illegal...Not to mention the fact that most hospitals nowadays can not refuse service due to lack of ability to pay, therefore some sort of plan is in place to compensate for non paying users of the facilities

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