Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read
I’ve said for some time that every single doctor’s appointment and prescription ought to require a nominal copay — think $5 or $10 — regardless of how poor the recipient is. Let’s be honest, many of America’s ‘poor’ still have $$$ to spend on tattoos or cigarettes or junk food.
Requiring people to part with some of their own cash will weed out the people who use health care as a form of entertainment (talk to anyone who works in an inner-city hospital or clinic — there are plenty of Medicaid recipients who bring the whole family in regularly, to hector the staffs over their chronic ailments).