alt Hacker NewsExactly this. They need to offset the areas where they lose money. And we have federal laws (justifiably so, IMHO) that ERs must provide stabilizing services regardless of insurance and ability to pay.
And while that law is obviously humane and reasonable, my only gripe is that the rest of our system is so backwards that it increasingly forces people to leverage that. There was a story about a woman who needed dialysis but had no insurance. So basically, she had to wait every couple weeks until she started breaking down, go to the ER, get emergency dialysis, get sent home. Rinse, repeat.
I don't blame her but really just the system that made this her best possible option.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/every-week-this-woman-nearly-die...
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But wouldn't nationalized healthcare help with this? The amount of uninsured individuals would drop drastically.
There was a story about a woman who needed dialysis but had no insurance.
And who was in the country illegally so she couldn't use Medicare or Medicaid. Still a terrible situation, but not representative of the typical American.