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> Or other emergency services such as hospitals able to check if you can pay the bills Hospitals are required to provide emergency services regardless of wheth

by imgabe 10y ago

> Or other emergency services such as hospitals able to check if you can pay the bills Hospitals are required to provide emergency services regardless of whether you can pay the bills. Pausing for even a second to check a patient's ability to pay when their life is on the line would be heinous in my opinion.

ams6110 10y ago
Have you been to a hospital ER? Unless you are literally dying, you will be sat in a chair and handed a clipboard of papers to fill out before anyone with medical training looks at you. And one of those forms will be a financial agreement.
- initram 10y ago
  And? You'll fill it out, possibly lying, possibly not, and hand it back to them. They will not read it, they will serve you, and then they will attempt to get payment from you at some point in the future.
- corecoder 10y ago
  Yes, that's USA.
- AlexandrB 10y ago
  Not to derail this conversation, but I'm so happy I live in Canada. I don't understand why the US population is so vehemently against public healthcare.
  - kwhitefoot 10y ago
    Ditto Norway and UK.
  - brightball 10y ago
    Mostly because there isn't a well intentioned government program in the US that actually runs as it's supposed to, isn't abused, isn't bloated, ever shrinks in costs or gains efficiency, etc. And I can't leave a comment like that without addressing the inevitable reply about the current state of healthcare, so to clarify, the current state of healthcare in the US is also the fault of the federal government for a bevy of reasons - most notably, incentivizing workplace health insurance that removed insurance coverage from the consumer market entirely, removing its costs and the natural market response to them and simultaneously removing the cost of healthcare itself from that same marketplace. The federal government has what I like to call a financial firehose that it aims at different problems and every time it aims that firehose, things get worse. Whether we are talking about healthcare, farming, higher education or housing...everything just gets more bloated and expensive when you remove price from discouraging demand in the basic economics of supply and demand.
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago
  I've been to the ER a few times. When you show up, they hand you a clipboard full of papers. When you show up saying "I think I'm having a heart attack", they take you straight back.

by imgabe 10y ago

ams6110 10y ago

Have you been to a hospital ER? Unless you are literally dying, you will be sat in a chair and handed a clipboard of papers to fill out before anyone with medical training looks at you. And one of those forms will be a financial agreement.

initram 10y ago
And? You'll fill it out, possibly lying, possibly not, and hand it back to them. They will not read it, they will serve you, and then they will attempt to get payment from you at some point in the future.
corecoder 10y ago
Yes, that's USA.
AlexandrB 10y ago
Not to derail this conversation, but I'm so happy I live in Canada. I don't understand why the US population is so vehemently against public healthcare.
- kwhitefoot 10y ago
  Ditto Norway and UK.
- brightball 10y ago
  Mostly because there isn't a well intentioned government program in the US that actually runs as it's supposed to, isn't abused, isn't bloated, ever shrinks in costs or gains efficiency, etc. And I can't leave a comment like that without addressing the inevitable reply about the current state of healthcare, so to clarify, the current state of healthcare in the US is also the fault of the federal government for a bevy of reasons - most notably, incentivizing workplace health insurance that removed insurance coverage from the consumer market entirely, removing its costs and the natural market response to them and simultaneously removing the cost of healthcare itself from that same marketplace. The federal government has what I like to call a financial firehose that it aims at different problems and every time it aims that firehose, things get worse. Whether we are talking about healthcare, farming, higher education or housing...everything just gets more bloated and expensive when you remove price from discouraging demand in the basic economics of supply and demand.
AnimalMuppet 10y ago
I've been to the ER a few times. When you show up, they hand you a clipboard full of papers. When you show up saying "I think I'm having a heart attack", they take you straight back.