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Originally Posted by HOZ
There is something about these stories that simply don't add up.
In the USA if you go to any hospital, they HAVE TO TREAT you (as long as they have the facilities to do so), period. No general hospital, by law, can turn away a patient!
The problem comes when the payment is needed.
You have to pay!
Her problem, if I read correctly, stems from insurance. Now this women had a dying child and she waits for the insurance to come through? Hmmm....Stick the VISA card on the table and go into debt.
It is a Human Right!
Wikipedia
federal law ensures public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay.[36] However, hospitals can still attempt to collect the unpaid bills, often damaging the uninsured patient's credit. |
Is that really true in reality though? I don't know but that's not how they make it out to be on medical dramas on the television. Also, what is the definition of "general hospital".
The way it's portrayed, the uninsured or poorly insured people go to a pretty dodgy looking hospital. The rich people don't. It is of course make-believe so maybe poor people can, as you suggest, get treatment anywhere. My television set has lied to me in the past so I could be wrong.
Homeless Bob with a bullet in his neck or a tumor in his tailpipe can't just walk into Johns Hopkins and demand treatment, can he?