Currently Medicaid/SCHIP pays about 40% or less the regular cost of care — not enough to cover costs in many cases. Hence, many health care providers currently provide little to no Medicaid care. If charity care were allowed to be tax deductible, you’d have providers falling all over themselves to provide top quality care — FREE FROM RED TAPE of Medicare, SCHIP and Medicaid.

Unlike welfare programs, this would self limiting for providers as one can’t provide more services than one has income to deduct.

Also, the ‘uncompensated’ portion would provide a check and balance against politicians short changing providers with lower and lower payments for Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP.

The fact that Quebec has no airborne rescue is unbelievable.

We have got to take this country back asap, but I fear that the only thing we can do is get to 2010 to fix the majorities in congress.
By that time, Obama will have had his will imposed on our country.

There has got to be an “out” written into those bills so that they can be rescinded, revoked, whatever.

Now, as per Glenn Beck, Barney “big boy?” Frank is running a bill through congress to bail out California.

Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan are in line with a similar financial situation.

Excellent Post!