Healthcare Education and Q&A Thread

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

Commercial Insurers oblige [to subsidize Medicaid losses] because saying no puts these hospitals in financial stress, and could cause the hospital to buckle under the financial pressure of treating so many Medicaid patients. Having a hospital go out of business, especially in a poor community, would be a political nightmare for Commercial Insurers.

This is the only part I don't understand. Can you please elaborate on the political ramifications for the commercial insurers, if they don't subsidize the Medicaid losses?