If I were deported after an ER visit, do you think I’d be paying my bills? Seems like this will hurt hospitals bottom line more than they considered. But fucking over immigrants is worth causing businesses harm, right? Smh
Thankfully it’s still illegal for a hospital to deny anyone life-saving emergency care tho, so it’s good for people to know they have this option to not give their name.
It’s embarrassing that we aren’t delivering care even just at the level of care of emergency Medicaid as a universal anymore though.
You joke but Ive been visited by the billing department while I was on a gurney in the ER, to ask me how I planned on paying today. That was with insurance. God that pissed me off typing that out. Screw the US health system.
If I were deported after an ER visit, do you think I’d be paying my bills? Seems like this will hurt hospitals bottom line more than they considered. But fucking over immigrants is worth causing businesses harm, right? Smh
Haven’t we learned by now that Trump doesn’t give a fuck about the economy
My name is “John Doe.” No, I don’t have any ID of any kind, sorry.
I’m sure they’ll get around to just denying life-saving emergency care right at the point of service.
Thankfully it’s still illegal for a hospital to deny anyone life-saving emergency care tho, so it’s good for people to know they have this option to not give their name.
It’s embarrassing that we aren’t delivering care even just at the level of care of emergency Medicaid as a universal anymore though.
What about the hospital pumping the guy with morphine and then saying, “I dunno! He had a heart attack!”.
What about the old fashioned strategy of “Pay up right now or I keel you”? And if the guy pays up, then he gets deported.
You joke but Ive been visited by the billing department while I was on a gurney in the ER, to ask me how I planned on paying today. That was with insurance. God that pissed me off typing that out. Screw the US health system.
They wanted me to discuss insurance with them while my lungs were fucked up by pneumonia. It was very frustrating.
They come any other time?
I doubt this will add a noticeable amount more non-paying patients It’s already a lot.