Salem Health Financials

Hello,
I just got this thing in the mail from Salem Health (Salem Hospital) called their "Community Benefits Report" for 2008. In their "Financials" section they provide a snapshot of their "Unreimbursed Costs". Here is the info:

"Every year Salem Health provides needed care to individuals for which the reimbursement, if any, does not cover the cost of providing such services"

Medicare.............$27,551,065
Amount the government underpaid Salem Health for providing care to Medicare patients.

Medicaid.............$7,477,188
Amount the government underpaid Salem Health for providing care to Medicaid and Oregon Health Plan patients.

Bad Debt..............$13,414,740
People who do not meet the requirements for Salem Health's charity-care policy and therefore should be able to pay for their healthcare but do not pay.

This is just one hospital, in one city, in one state! The government UNDERPAID this hospital by $35,028,253 (that's million!). Who do you think makes up this loss? Yep..you guessed it...the people with actual insurance coverage and/or whom pay cash. No wonder doctors charge so much, and in turn the insurance companies charge so much. The government UNDERPAID this hospital by millions, yet people believe they will successfully run a national health plan. Why would it be any different.
Also, consider this. Currently every doctor in the US has a cap for how many Medicare/Medicaid/Welfare patients they will accept (due to the poor payment). If we institute a $90+ billion dollar health plan (that taxpayers will pay for)...what makes anyone think it will be any different. Every doctor is going to continue to have a cap for how many national health plan patients they will accept due to poor payment. We will be right back where we started. Too many people will continue to be without medical coverage.
Again I ask...why not work on fixing what we already have (capping frivolous malpractice lawsuits, cutting extreme profit out of pharmacuetical companies and insurance companies, providing incentives for more people to become doctors, etc) than WASTING our time, money, etc. on some new plan that will bring us back to square one??
Sorry...the numbers don't lie.