Comments on: How authentic charity care can work for Utah http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/12/19/how-authentic-charity-care-can-work-for-utah/ News and views on Utah public policy Thu, 16 May 2013 23:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kathryn Zwack http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/12/19/how-authentic-charity-care-can-work-for-utah/#comment-1438 Kathryn Zwack Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:28:46 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=1956#comment-1438 Actually, what we are advocating is a more efficient delivery and usage of health care for and by the uninsured. Medicaid would still need to exist for the benefit of the disabled and the elderly.

Authentic Charity Care would also provide–in fact require–recipients to give back to their communities. All community residents can still be involved in the delivery of authentic charity care (not just health care professionals) through donations and the provisioning of other services needed by the clinics.

]]> By: JBT http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/12/19/how-authentic-charity-care-can-work-for-utah/#comment-1437 JBT Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:41:26 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=1956#comment-1437 If I read this right, you are advocating that the health care needs of those citizens unable to pay for heath insurance or health care should be put on the backs of health care professionals donating their time for free. Ostensibly this would be done in order to eliminate the need for all of us to help take care of one another through our state and federal taxes which return in the form of Medicaid.

Why should just one small segment of society be tasked with helping the poor with their health care needs, when it should be every citizen’s responsibility to help their unfortunate neighbors?

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