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If you willingly choose to forgo health insurance and end up in the emergency room, you should have to bear the entire cost of your stay, with no assistance from taxpayers. CMV.

With the Affordable Care Act continuing to face political troubles, many young people - the so-called "young invincibles" - are choosing to pay a penalty, rather than purchase health insurance, whether to make a political statement or because they do not expect to find themselves in a hospital anytime soon.

However, accidents and freak medical events can strike anyone, anytime, which was part of the impetus to include an individual mandate in the ACA. It used to be that if an uninsured person was in a car accident and ended up in the emergency room, and said individual could not pay, the rest of us ate the costs in higher premiums. The mandate to purchase insurance hopes to do away with this practice.

Regardless of whether you have a moral problem with government mandates, I believe that if you *willingly* choose to forgo insurance - sans those who were granted exceptions in the law (the poor not covered by Medicaid, Native Americans, etc.) -  you should not expect a dime of support from the rest of us if you ever end up in the hospital.

If anyone has a better way to mitigate the practice of taxpayer-subsidized emergency room visits by the uninsured (who now have no excuse to remain that way), I would love to have a discussion about it.

Edit:
1) There have been some totally legitimate points made about the extraordinarily high costs of health care provided at hospitals, and I think it certainly makes sense to add that as part of the health care reform equation.

2) I should probably clarify that this post is mostly directed at those individuals refusing to obtain health care simply to be stubborn, or to "stick it to the government." For those who cannot afford it on their own, they could either qualify for Medicaid or a subsidy on the exchanges, or they might be granted an exception under the law.

3) I personally would have loved to have seen a single-payer system implemented in the United States, because I truly believe in caring for those most destitute among us. But we have to work with what we have been given, and my view stems from the fact that many "Young Invincibles" are expecting the rest of us to pick up their tab (by incurring higher premiums) if something happens to them, because they chose not to participate in the first place.
gpt
This is already the case. An uninsured person goes to the hospital, they get stuck with a huge bill, they go bankrupt and don't pay, and the cost gets diffused to everyone else. The rest of us aren't literally paying their bill, it just works out that way.