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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Federal money is taxpayer dollars. If they don't receive taxpayer dollars, they don't have to follow the mandate. Most hospitals feel that the benefits of the taxpayer dollars they receive outweigh the burden of the mandate, so they do it.
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Yea, very few hospitals do not accept medicare, unfortunately.
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What they don't get is direct funding for poor ER patients, for that they get the tax writeoff.It works rhetorically, but effectively the only difference between a tax writeoff and a check for the equivalent amount from the government is bookkeeping.
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Well I will try to think about it like that when I write off my business expenses. I still do not receive taxpayer dollars because I write off my expense.