But if the patient can get by without insurance that rule doesn't mean anything.
It may also be read as imposing a tax on those who go without insurance.
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Those who do so belatedly without insurance will drive up prices for all of us.
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Meanwhile the government finances welfare for those without insurance rights, as well as job-placement.
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Rather, it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income.
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The new figures show the number of Americans without insurance remains statistically unchanged in 2008, at 46 million.
He asserts that a tax on going without insurance is not a direct tax, but hardly offers much explanation.
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So many of these people on both sides of the divide talk about going without insurance, about that struggle.
Women without insurance were 2.4 times as likely to have late-stage breast cancer upon diagnosis than women with private insurance.
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People without insurance might get it, people with insurance might get different treatment and extra taxes to handle the cost.
One operation can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars without insurance, and concierge medicine does nothing to solve that problem.
But treating patients without insurance meant that I had to give my acute attention to the price of every medical intervention.
Both men have been charged with three counts of burglary, aggravated vehicle taking causing injury and using a motor vehicle without insurance.
And without insurance, they tend to be behave in a very skittish manner, pulling money at even the first hint of trouble.
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We need to enable public hospitals, and community and university health centers, to provide basic, affordable care for working families without insurance.
Millions more are between jobs, their time without insurance measured in months.
He also faces three charges of driving while disqualified, three of driving without insurance and one count of perverting the course of justice.
He had admitted aggravated vehicle taking, driving otherwise in accordance with a licence, using a vehicle without insurance and failing to stop after an accident.
The proportion of those without insurance remained the same, at 16.3%.
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He rejects entirely, for example, the argument that going without insurance is a financial transaction due to the inevitability of running up healthcare costs sooner or later.
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The first penalties will be levied on individuals without insurance.
The new reforms, passed three years ago, have cut the number of uninsured in half, so that only 2.6% of people in the state are now without insurance.
Some vehicles were confiscated after drivers were found without insurance.
The health-care law envisioned each of the 50 states running a marketplace where people without insurance could comparison-shop for policies and apply for subsidies to help them pay premiums.
He was arrested in 2009 for underage possession of alcohol and in 2011 for driving with a suspended license and without insurance after being involved in a car accident.
And all the while, the number of Americans without insurance kept rising, compounded by a horrific recession -- with people losing their jobs and then losing their health care.
And I'm not just talking about women without insurance, who face the terrifying prospect, as you've heard, of having to pay the full cost of their treatment on their own.
Rubin is one of 250, 000 people with disabling conditions such as MS, cancer or schizophrenia who are stuck in this waiting period without insurance, according to an estimate from the Commonwealth Fund.
These decisions, viewed in the aggregate, have clear and direct impacts on health care providers, taxpayers, and the insured population who ultimately pay for the care provided to those who go without insurance.
And it used to be that the uninsured did pay these charges, but actually there's a provision in the Affordable Care Act that prohibits hospitals from charging most people without insurance these inflated rates.
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