Honest question: You know how the ACA forbids insurance companies from denying people coverage for any reason as long as they paid up? Does it say anything about the hospitals? Because if I were an overcrowded hospital I'd start authorizing the clerks to look up incoming patients' Facebook accounts and turning down whoever they end up hating the most. I know why they're not doing that; every new patient means more dosh from their insurers, and what are their overworked doctors and nurses gonna do, threaten to walk out? Still, there are some hospitals that literally can't take in any new patients anymore, so you have to draw a line somewhere.
I do recall joking, back in 2018 or so when news hit of investors backing out of the health insurance business, that our ultimate evil plan to enact universal health care was to bankrupt the insurance companies and then nationalize them. At the rate they've been having to pay out for COVID care for the past solid year and a half, it might not be a joke for much longer.
I do recall joking, back in 2018 or so when news hit of investors backing out of the health insurance business, that our ultimate evil plan to enact universal health care was to bankrupt the insurance companies and then nationalize them. At the rate they've been having to pay out for COVID care for the past solid year and a half, it might not be a joke for much longer.
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