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Hospitals See Benefits in Universal Insurance

Hospitals and insurers, the health care players at the center of a bill to cover uninsured New Jerseyans with government-funded health insurance, stand to be financial winners under the plan, industry insiders say.

The measure (S-1557) would put New Jersey in the forefront of health care reforms being enacted by states and debated on the presidential campaign trail. The plan, proposed by Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), would make New Jersey the second state after Massachusetts… more

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. . . Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute based in Washington, D.C., argued that the insured are already coming up with some of that money. The uninsured “present a hidden tax to the rest of us” because hospitals charge insured patients more than they should to make up revenues lost by treating patients without insurance, he… more