If you've been to a hospital in the last...oh let's say 10 months, you may have noticed how bad the wait times are, because it turns out a lot of the doctors and nurses got the fuck out of the US.
He makes it sound like the US has universal healthcare.
Dude. Everyone is paying for their own fucking healthcare. If they don't have insurance, they don't get treated.
If they don't have insurance, they don't get treated.
You still get life saving emergency care whether you have insurance or not. It is illegal to turn patients away that will die without care regardless of their medical debts or insurance coverage.
They still bill you, though. It's not like you get that treatment for free.
Assuming they can identify who "you" is.
Yes, dude, I'm aware. Didn't say they did.
The hospital can write it off as charity care... Or send the person to collections if it's over a certain dollar amount
This is what I can’t get, like…. I guess he is saying ‘just die’? These people are ghouls and I can’t understand how anyone can support them.
Yes, he is saying "just die".
Also, I don't think the US has free hospitals. Looks to me that he is complaining about people buying services.
Well, the er can’t turn away people, so if you don’t have insurance then it is shouldered by tax I suppose. Or maybe the people just go into life destroying medical debt, not sure.
It’s a fucking mess, and then here’s this asshat actively making it worse. :(
EDs can’t turn anyone away. That said, the mandate is not to let people die outright. As such, if you are medically stable, you are sent home, usually without a solution for non-emergent things that should be taken to a PCP or specialist like chronic back pain, pain med refills, thyroid condition that tests out as non emergent, among many other things. The discharge paperwork that says follow up with your doctor or even one they make an appointment with, for you, because it’s a bit more concerning, often is the treatment.
If you’re stable, don’t have rot on your body (more common than you’d think), and aren’t a danger to self or others, they can often just send you home.
All of that said, billing it out doesn’t mean the hospital sees that money. There’s a piece that can be eaten for low income under the requirements for being a nonprofit, but otherwise, the hospital eats those costs and passes them on to paying patients.
In the meantime, everyone gets sicker.
Some areas have free clinics. But they are often crowded, and only open a few hours.
There's human rights, but then there's the US.
Illegals outside hospital?
I remember one time I said something about Usha abandoning her heritage for the oppressive white man. Someone said I shouldn't blame her for her husband's actions.
This bitch is literally sleeping with a fascist. I'll say whatever I want.
Wait, that's his wife?
So of course the best option is to get rid of healthcare coverage for millions of people so that:
They will be far more likely to put off medical treatment until it becomes an emergency.
They will be far more likely to seek non-emergency medical treatment at an ER because they can't be turned away.
This guy is the Tom Cruise of politics - he does all the stunts himself.
It was in this exact moment that JD decided he would strive to be as good, nay, better than Tom Cruise and one day avenge his true love.
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