You have no idea what you are saying and are under some kind of fantasy. I live the reality you are speculating about.
EMERGENCY CARE must be admitted, ie. loss of a finger - it most certainly is not free and that person will never be able to get credit for the rest of their life (unless they can somehow afford to repay it - but an ambulance flight in is at least $10k alone)
They are under no obligation to treat cancer. If you were bleeding out from the final stages, they might have to admit you. Otherwise it's not an emergency. You are free to die slowly.
If you don't catch the cancer early on and can get some federal assistance to get it treated, you are pretty much screwed. They pretty much know with cancer you aren't going to be paying them back for any services rendered, so none rendered.
If you are a step above federal poverty level yet still cannot afford to pay for medical or dental treatment in this country, you are screwed. Your entire income will be consumed as you get older by medical needs. If you get cancer, your best bet is to then make sure your income completely disappears and apply for all the assistance you can get, your job income then becomes a liability.
> If you don't catch the cancer early on and can get some federal assistance to get it treated, you are pretty much screwed. They pretty much know with cancer you aren't going to be paying them back for any services rendered, so none rendered.
So you are calling parent a liar? That his story can't be true because someone without insurance but with liver cancer would just die under our heartless system?
> If you are a step above federal poverty level yet still cannot afford to pay for medical or dental treatment in this country, you are screwed.
You definitely have a problem, but I think you severely underestimate the amount of charity care that goes on in the US, which is why our hospitals charge so much anyways. You can go to the hospital, get treatment, they will bill you later, and...they won't run a credit check first.
> If you get cancer, your best bet is to then make sure your income completely disappears and apply for all the assistance you can get, your job income then becomes a liability.
You can get charity care without being on medicaid.
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You have no idea what you are saying and are under some kind of fantasy. I live the reality you are speculating about.
EMERGENCY CARE must be admitted, ie. loss of a finger - it most certainly is not free and that person will never be able to get credit for the rest of their life (unless they can somehow afford to repay it - but an ambulance flight in is at least $10k alone)
They are under no obligation to treat cancer. If you were bleeding out from the final stages, they might have to admit you. Otherwise it's not an emergency. You are free to die slowly.
If you don't catch the cancer early on and can get some federal assistance to get it treated, you are pretty much screwed. They pretty much know with cancer you aren't going to be paying them back for any services rendered, so none rendered.
If you are a step above federal poverty level yet still cannot afford to pay for medical or dental treatment in this country, you are screwed. Your entire income will be consumed as you get older by medical needs. If you get cancer, your best bet is to then make sure your income completely disappears and apply for all the assistance you can get, your job income then becomes a liability.
> If you don't catch the cancer early on and can get some federal assistance to get it treated, you are pretty much screwed. They pretty much know with cancer you aren't going to be paying them back for any services rendered, so none rendered.
So you are calling parent a liar? That his story can't be true because someone without insurance but with liver cancer would just die under our heartless system?
> If you are a step above federal poverty level yet still cannot afford to pay for medical or dental treatment in this country, you are screwed.
You definitely have a problem, but I think you severely underestimate the amount of charity care that goes on in the US, which is why our hospitals charge so much anyways. You can go to the hospital, get treatment, they will bill you later, and...they won't run a credit check first.
> If you get cancer, your best bet is to then make sure your income completely disappears and apply for all the assistance you can get, your job income then becomes a liability.
You can get charity care without being on medicaid.