Are Hospitals Being Stiffed by the Uninsured?

“The whole issue is that people need to take control of their lives, people need to not think of health care as an entitlement, they need to get health insurance, and you know it is possible. When you break down that 50.7 million Americans who don’t have insurance at one particular point in time, 17 million of them are people earning over $50,000 a year, two-thirds are young people, they don’t want to spend $500 a month on insurance.”

Sally C. Pipes appeared on FOX Business’s “The Willis Report” to discuss the costs to hospitals from uninsured patients. According to Ms. Pipes, “The whole issue is that people need to take control of their lives, people need to not think of health care as an entitlement, they need to get health insurance, and you know it is possible. When you break down that 50.7 million Americans who don’t have insurance at one particular point in time, 17 million of them are people earning over $50,000 a year, two-thirds are young people, they don’t want to spend $500 a month on insurance.”

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