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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by ebiester on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:03AM (#22257053)
How does that work for a heart attack? How do you negotiate an emergency open bypass surgery?
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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by developerdylan on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:04AM (#22257077)
No. In Canada, they just take you into surgery and treat you. Then you leave without a bill.

Contrast that to the US which could leave a person bankrupt for the same emergency.

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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by JohnFen on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:33AM (#22257417)
> Contrast that to the US which could leave a person bankrupt for the same emergency.

Indeed. Even if you have good insurance, getting something like a heart attack, cancer, etc. in the US makes it likely that you'll be bankrupt in the end. I know three people that this has happened to.

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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by jiveturkey on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:14PM (#22257917)
medical procedures, for people with insurance, is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US.
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