Re:Emergency rooms are monopolies
by sxates on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:40PM
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Those who can't pay don't get their care for free. They'll be hounded by debt collectors the rest of their life, whatever credit they had will be trashed, and some will be pushed into bankruptcy. We are all paying for it.
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Not when they just lie about their identity.
Re:Emergency rooms are monopolies
by dsfyu404ed on Friday December 08, 2017 @02:03PM
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I don't see why you're getting down-voted. If you've got "bad" insurance that fake ID from college and memorizing 12 random digits is probably more useful when it comes to emergency care. Sad but true.
It has zero to do with problems of people who don't lie. None at all. And mojority don't. It amounts to "situation is ok, because I can point to some fraudster that is not suffering".
What exactly that has to do with someone being haunted for debt? Or is he suggesting you should fraud ER and you are suckers if you don't?
I wish I could upvote you twice to help with the other downvotes. I know of at least 3 cases so far where folks walk into ER and lie about who they are when they leave. All of the cases are because of no health insurance, but they aren't hounded by any debt collectors.