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Originally Posted by Ibram
i can NEVER tell when he's being facetious or if he even ever is.
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Reality is facetious. All medicine must cease - the Hypocratic oath must be violated - if medical facilities cannot pay their bills. All businesses including non-profits and even the Catholic Church must pay their bills. Otherwise they must cease to exist. Denying that is facetious.
Does not matter if the building is tax free. It is still a business. It must pay its bills. It must pay its employees. Or it must cease to exist even if desperately needed. Why are so many churches closing? As with any business, even if needed. It must cease to exist if the bills are not paid.
Without a system where customers can pay, then a hospital should be expected to refuse service. Otherwise medicine gets denied to so many more. Free market is the American way in any and every business. But to not fix the system only perverts a free market. Customers did not die because hospitals are evil. They died because we did not fix what is obviously a worst system in the world. Adversarial politicians caused those deaths by wanting bad economics and a political agenda.
Americans pay double what anyone else in the world pays because we think it is fair to seek medical services without paying. Foolishly think charity is a permanent solution. How to guarantee no medical services? Americans are somewhere down between 25 and 50 on the list of successful medicine. American medicine is that poor. Costs twice as much as any other nation. Deaths directly traceable to economic mismanagement. Facetious is that reality if it also was not so sad.
If we do not have a workable solution, then the most honest and decent people have no other option. Deny service to anyone who cannot pay. That is free markets gone bad because so many leaders would exercise a political agenda rather than address a problem. People are already dying because bills cannot be paid.
If our system cannot guarantee payment, then the Hypocratic oath is violated. Nothing works if the bills are not paid.