The answer is the same answer its always been. Unless everyone is covered
by insurance, then those that aren't will be a burden on the system. Even young and healthy people who think they don't need insurance, sometimes get injured or sick. And the article does talk about a big driver - Medicaid does not fully cover the cost of the services it covers. That gap is a loss, community benefit, for the provider. The more people on Medicaid the larger the $$ loss will be.
A big part of the ACA was Medicaid expansion. I suspect Medicare expansion would have been better for providers.
A third facor is that because the young and healthy have NOT signed up for exchanges in significant numbers, co-pays and deductibles have grown ans sometimes people can't afford their share. Boom, community benefit.
The real question is, how big would this loss have gotten if so many million people had NOT finally gotten insurance coverage?
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Posted: 07/16/2017 at 2:31PM