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Originally Posted by Rocksnap
Could be just me, but that seems outlandish to pay a tax to take care of indigent patients. I’ve never heard of such a thing. Yes, I’m new to Fla & TV.
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Hospitals all over the country have to do something about bad debts that arise. It is not only homeless people that can't pay their hospital bills. People with homes can be hit by hospital bills too big for them to pay. They get thrown into a collection agency that HOUNDS them. For-profit hospitals and not-for-profit hospitals have to EAT their bad debts somehow. The for-profit hospitals just raise their prices. The community and not-for-profits pass indigent care on to medicaid, medicare, and insurance companies. They all can't turn patients away so they find ways to pass bad debt on.