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Many physician services and hospitals are going broke! With Medicaid, they loss money with every patient that walks through the door, with Medicare they barely break even, and with the uninsured they basically write it off. Dr. Rocky White says, "We have to tap into the insurance industry in order to make enough money to keep our doors open, and you guys are the ones that are shouldering that bill. Because basically the insurance company has this army of bureaucrats trying to spend money to keep from paying us, and we have to hire an army of bureaucrats to try and get the money out of them. Twenty-six percent of our overhead was spent just on bureaucrats, people in the business office trying to deal with the insurance company. Not with Medicaid and Medicare, with the insurance companies." It's businesses and employees with health insurance that pays enough to offset hospital losses from Medicaid and self-pay. But with fewer companies offering health insurance to their employees, the number of people with no insurance continues to rise, directly affecting the quality and availability of healthcare for everyone!