Well, hospitals take it on the chin for that. If people are not insured, the more people we get insured, the sounder our hospital's financial footing is. In the two years before Governor Corbett accepted the Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, we lost two hospitals in northeastern Pennsylvania. Saint Catharines down in Schuylkill county, and the Marion Community Hospital. You know, healthcare coverage is all theoretical. You might get sick, you might not. (41:54–42:05)
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