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For those who dont want to pay for the uninsured, I would suggest you already are.
If you have insurance through your job, your employer probably has seen an average premium increase of 10%/year for the last 5-6 years. In many cases, a portion of that increased is passed on to you, the employee. At the very least, your employer has less funds in the pool for salary increases.
Now consider that hospitals are facing costs of more than $20 billion/year to provide services (emergency and otherwise) to the uninsured. How do you think they recover some of these costs? Or why do you think your employers premiums have risen so much in recent years? In part, by hospitals raising their fees on the insured.
Universal care is both good social policy and fiscal policy.....and does not mean socialized medicine.
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