Charging paying patients more to cover the cost of patients who don't pay

[WestCoastLib]

12. That's the way everything works

I can't agree with your premise. This is the way things work, and the way things should work. Now we can debate the costs of Healthcare and whether or not we should go Single Payer, but we (the collective we) will always pay for those that don't, in every aspect of life.

A business makes operates with a budget to cover costs. Theft (or failure to pay) is a cost on their budget. They are still paying the doctors, nurses and surgeons for the time that they treated these people.

Your car insurance goes up the more people that total their cars.

Your grocery prices go up if people steal from their store.

Honestly, this reality is what makes conservative policies so stupid. They are against paying taxes to help other people, but all those costs from taxes we don't pay are going to end up coming out of our pockets eventually in other ways anyway.

Don't want to pay taxes for quality education? Fine, watch the crime rate go up and less educated people resort to other means to make end meet. And watch your home insurance go up, the amount you pay at stores go up, the costs we pay for incarceration go up, etc.

There's pretty much no aspect of life in which this dynamic that you are upset about doesn't play out.