Socialized Health Care in the USA

[Delc]

A misperception perhaps is that these people do not get health care. They do, but just not through the red tape of Medicaid. Instead, they walk into a city clinic or hospital emergency room, wait in line, get treated and leave. How they negotiate the payment or lack of payment is extremely variable. I heard that many are young adults who have left their parents plans, but have not bothered to get a plan or probably even care about a plan.

Right, so they skip all of the preventative care, and cheaper solutions, and go right for the single most expensive way to administer health care, and then stick the hospital with the bill, because there is no way they can afford to pay it. So the hospital raises everyone else's rates to cover the ones that never get paid. So you still end up paying for it, and its about as inefficient as possible.