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That is untrue. If you do not have insurance, the hospital is going to patch you up and send you out the door. You are not going to get treatment except for emergency treatment. No chemo, no cancer treatment, no Diabetis treatment, no kidney dialysis or transplant. They send you home to DIE!
You are correct. Unless the patient has a true emergency, the hospital can and will refuse to see you in the ER. ERs have a triage system in place that determines whether the person who walks in the door has a condtion that potentially can be an emergency.
If a person (legal or illegal) who doesn't have insurance walks into an emergency room due to a heart attack, yes the hospital will take care of that person. The government doesn't foot the bill. The person is on the hook for the bill. How many of them will actually pay the bill? My experience is that about 90% will pay the bill, after negotiating the rate down with the hospital.
If that person is illegal the government pays for it. If the person is legal and has assets they will be forced to seel something or make some kind of payment plan.
You are correct. Unless the patient has a true emergency, the hospital can and will refuse to see you in the ER. ERs have a triage system in place that determines whether the person who walks in the door has a condtion that potentially can be an emergency.
I beg to differ with you and I know from actual experience. I have been self-employed without insurance a couple of times and my children were never refused treatment. My son had second and third degree burns that we were taking care of ourselves and when the school nurse noticed. She sent us to a clinic that took care of everything, pain meds, suave, antibiotics, etc.. I offered to pay and they refused to take payment because I did not have health insurance. I guess it just depends how someone handles their situation, I guess.
If that person is illegal the government pays for it. If the person is legal and has assets they will be forced to seel something or make some kind of payment plan.
Can you show us proof that the government pays for it?
If a patient (legal or illegal) doesn't pay his bills, that person's account will be sent to a collection agency. If person refuses to pay, the hospital can either sue, or write off the debt. Most of the time the hospital writes off the debt. The government does not foot the bill for the person (legal or illegal).
Yes they do receive health care, not insurance, but health care. No hospital can refuse health-care to anyone legal or illegal. The government pays for those that can't pay, legal and/or illegal. The myth that xx_ million people don't have health-care is a myth. They don't have heath insurance. I wish people would just quit perpetuated that myth for political reasons.
The government does not pay for anything. The taxpayers do, through tax levys. Really, YOU and ME pay for the healthcare illegals receive. It is billions of dollars each year. Fact.
I beg to differ with you and I know from actual experience. I have been self-employed without insurance a couple of times and my children were never refused treatment. My son had second and third degree burns that we were taking care of ourselves and when the school nurse noticed. She sent us to a clinic that took care of everything, pain meds, suave, antibiotics, etc.. I offered to pay and they refused to take payment because I did not have health insurance. I guess it just depends how someone handles their situation, I guess.
That's strange. I don't know why the clinic refused to take your payment. I don't know of any doctor, clinic, hospital, or business for that matter that refuses to accept payment in cash.
Can you show us proof that the government pays for it?
If a patient (legal or illegal) doesn't pay his bills, that person's account will be sent to a collection agency. If person refuses to pay, the hospital can either sue, or write off the debt. Most of the time the hospital writes off the debt. The government does not foot the bill for the person (legal or illegal).
In New Mexico, if one lives in Bernco, s/he is assessed a special mill levy to fund the public hospital. Property owners pick up the tab for indigent health care that costs tens of millions each year. One report indicated that 70% of the indigent healthcare was related to illegals.
Can you show us proof that the government pays for it?
If a patient (legal or illegal) doesn't pay his bills, that person's account will be sent to a collection agency. If person refuses to pay, the hospital can either sue, or write off the debt. Most of the time the hospital writes off the debt. The government does not foot the bill for the person (legal or illegal).
Having lived in CA most of my life before moving to TX I guess all the complaints from politicians, both local, state and national about how the state could not keep up with the money needed to treat people both legal and illegal that were not paying their medical bills were just a figment of my imagination. Do you think the hospitals just eat the costs?
But since you asked.
Health care providers in the U.S. will, as from this week, be able to charge the government for emergency care they provide to illegal aliens.
Final guidance was issued on May 9th by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has set up a system for reimbursement. $1 billion has been set aside over four years to fund the program which was created by Medicare legislation passed in 2003.
That's strange. I don't know why the clinic refused to take your payment. I don't know of any doctor, clinic, hospital, or business for that matter that refuses to accept payment in cash.
I told them I could afford to pay. I had just paid cash for my home in TX and had $$$ in the bank. The clinic was set up for people that had no health insurance so they were not set up to take payment. I talked to the girl at the desk and said this is why we have such a mess in out health care system. She agreed.
When I was self-employed in CA I could not get insurance once my COBRA ran out because 5 out of the 6 in our family had pre-existing conditions. I had money to pay the premiums but nobody would cover us.
In New Mexico, if one lives in Bernco, s/he is assessed a special mill levy to fund the public hospital. Property owners pick up the tab for indigent health care that costs tens of millions each year. One report indicated that 70% of the indigent healthcare was related to illegals.
That can only mean that the indigents are all going to the ER for all their medical care, when they should be going to community clinics for non-emergencies. It's not the immigration status of the patients that's costing the hospitals money. It's the fact that ERs are being used as a primary care clinic rather than as a place to treat emergencies. Where I live in Illinois, there are practically zero illegals. 95% of people are white. Yet, we see the same behavior: people with hang nails show up in the ER for treatment.
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