No. The government should not be able to force small, privately owned businesses to perform services they do not want to perform.

Hospitals operate by rules that are a little bit different. A large corporate entity like most hospitals usually have more protections and often even federal funding to help them when patients do not pay or are uninsured. A small, private dental practice has none of that. The cost of running a dental practice is very high. People routinely steal from the dentist and because it's a service there is no legal recourse except enlisting the services of a collections agency. You are lucky to get 30% of the money owed you even then. That won't even cover expenses. People not paying for services rendered is theft but because it's a service there's little you can do. Forcing providers to do work even when they won't get paid is not a recipe for high quality service and healthcare.

The "free" services should be relegated to the ER where true emergencies belong. Remember, "free" just means someone else is paying for it.

Now if the Secretary of Health wants to get together with the IRS and offer a dollar for dollar reduction of taxes for "free" and unpaid services rendered, that might gain some traction with healthcare providers.

I figure it would take between 4 and 5 thousand.

To this day, I’ll never understand how turkeys and feral pigs coexist. Pigs are notorious for rooting up and eating everything. I’ve seen area where they dug freshwater mussels. I figured they’d eat up every nest they came across . And I’m sure some do. And, yet, we still have a healthy turkey population. Same with other states with them. I don’t get it.