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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4634380" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>You may be correct, but in no way is your statement meaningful. The indigent can only get EMERGENCY care at hospitals not care for chronic problems that aren't immediately life threatening. Going to the ER over and over in an ambulance for an insulin shot, or dialysis is more costly long and short term than just providing insulin in a clinic. And when hospitals take a writeoff, it still means reduced profit. That is dumb. Hospitals still need a certain amount of income to stay open, no matter how many 'writeoffs' they have. That need for more income translates into higher bills for everyone with insurance, and if you have a 20% copay, or co-insurance, your 20% is higher, just because you hate the poor and want them to only get care through the ER.</p></blockquote><p></p>