No. What really happens is that the hospital does a check on whether the uninsured person has any assets. If yes >> garnish the assets. This can include your b

No. What really happens is that the hospital does a check on whether the uninsured person has any assets. If yes >> garnish the assets. This can include your business, your house, whatever you have. If no >> ok they're poor, let's negotiate it down to the limit of what they can pay. If they're really, really poor, it gets written off... and the other uninsured people bear the cost of that writeoff. That's one of the major reasons that the costs for uninsured people are so crazy; the hospital system is allowed to do that.