Yes, if we want to live in a society where hospitals don’t throw people out to die on the street because they’re not carrying an insurance card, then someone has to pay for it.
I think the suggestion is that there are better ways to choose who bears the cost than "a random selection of the sick people who walked through the door at roughly the same time", and also ways to house unwell but stable people at lower expense and with greater quality of life for them.
Is it false? A care center either takes in anonymous people with no money off the street or it doesn’t. The problem outlined in the article is precisely that LA General does do this, while “Skilled nursing facilities, group homes and rehabilitation centers won’t take people who don’t have anyone to pay for them.”
