Charging paying patients more to cover the cost of patients who don't pay

[drray23]

14. but consider this.

It is not a simple case of one to one pay for services. The whole premise of insurance, including healthcare is to spread the load over everybody. That is why we live in society. We derive benefits from such and hence we pay for it. I dolt not mind if I pay more so that people we can not pay get care. First, its the right thing to do from a compassionate point of view, it also makes sense economically. If everybody gets care, the society as a whole works better.
As far as restaurant goes, maybe it does not work like your analogy but its not far off the mark. The cost of that burger include incidentals such as factoring the amount of food waste (customers refusing a dish for whatever reason), lost silverware, broken plates, etc.. So yes, you do end up paying for others in your burger.