Message #6359

[Ted S]

Unelected health care providers are already taxing you and taxing you big even though they have no legal ability to levy taxes.

Yes; they are virtual taxing arm of the government because as you said:

Hospitals are prohibited from turning anyone away from the ER on basis of ability to pay because it's an emergency room.

Which is the real source of the problem.  If hospitals weren't forced by law to perform services for patients who won't pay then their costs would or could be lower.