If you don’t have insurance, you’re going to wish that you did. Hospitals in Orange County, specifically so far, Health Central are turning away patients who do not carry insurance, unless they can pre-pay $100. So far, over ten would-be patients have been turned away.

I don’t blame the hospitals. Yes, they are there to give care to those who need it, but at the same time, they also have to make money. And most people who do not have insurance are not going to pay the hospital bill when it does come in the mail.

I know there are those  who will say that they cannot afford insurance, but you also can’t afford not to have insurance. Who would take a job that doesn’t have insurance, especially if they have a family.

Look at it this way, if grocery stores and gas stations allowed people to pump gas or to take food home with them that they hadn’t paid for, those places would go out of business. Yes, its all about money. But what isn’t.

Those of you who go to work each day, if when payday came around, you didn’t get paid, would you continue to keep working? Well, that is exactly what people are expecting the hospitals, doctors, nurses and staff to do, and its just not fair to expect that of them.

Try thinking like a person who runs a business and not with your emotions.