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"federal law to provide no-cost indigent care" Could you explain "indigent" here, please. It looks like a typo.
by gerdesj 2y ago
"federal law to provide no-cost indigent care"
Could you explain "indigent" here, please. It looks like a typo.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoThey mean providing care to poor people.
- btilly 2y agoAny homeless person can walk into an ER and get care. What will happen to the bills? Effectively it is no cost care for those who are sufficiently poor.
- gerdesj 2y agoCool - that sounds a bit like our NHS. You also said "What will happen to the bills?" - what does that mean? Cheers Jon
- nradov 2y agoSome of the bills are just written off as bad debt. Essentially thrown away. But in many cases the hospital back office will work to get indigent patients enrolled in Medicaid and then send the bills to the state government.
- atomicnumber3 2y agoSocialized medicine with extra steps and 500 middlemen all skimming off the top
- dragonwriter 2y agoIt's someone looking at the EMTALA requirement for emergency departments to provide stabilization without regard to ability to pay without also realizing that the US has public health insurance for the medically indigent.
- pge 2y agoThere are still a lot of low-income patients that are not covered by medicaid