because you can t go anywhere to get that money back. right. will: what s your bottom line look like over three to four year period? how how much has that gone up te bills that you can t recoup over time? it s unsustainable. we are a year into this now, that number has basically doubled. and it will continue to increase. and we don t have you know, hospitals operate on a very thin margin anyway. we operate on 2% to #% margin annually. this margin is not looking good financial. due to uncompensated costs that we have. will: unsustainable almost under statement. obvious truth. right. will: money you can t recoup going up 2% to 3% at some point then that effects americans. they go into your hospital. your hospital is out of business or the resources aren t there because of administered somewhere else. out of curiosity, i walk in and i m an american and i don t have the resources to pay i still get treatment, right? but do i get to walk away, you
then and they should pate bills. they should be honest about the cost that we re going to incur, that taxpayers are going to face. and this idea that it s free or this idea that nobody who makes under $400,000 is going to pay taxes? look at what the stock market did today? people understand what s going on here? nothing s free. everybody is going to be taxed. you look at inflation going up. that s a tax on the middle class and it is a tax on working americans. bret: but, senator, you concede that both parties, republicans and democrats, have been spending like drunken sailors for years up on capitol hill? you know, i have said that before, too. and then we get hit with covid. bret: yeah. we worked together in a bipartisan way trying to address that and we did spend $6 trillion. but i think republicans are saying, you know, we didn t need to do that 1.9 trillion in march because let s go back and see where that other money has been spent on.