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Post by ericn on Nov 19, 2018 8:08:42 GMT -6
How do they get care if they don't have insurance? Tons of hospitals won't even admit you if you don't have insurance or a credit card, no matter how sick you are. Completely untrue. It's law that they must treat you, and has been that way since Reagan signed it into law in 1986. Depends on what you consider “treat” and a hospital or dr. An ER has to treat you if you are dying or in danger, but if you don’t need emergency care they will treat and street. |
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Post by svart on Nov 19, 2018 8:14:05 GMT -6
Completely untrue. It's law that they must treat you, and has been that way since Reagan signed it into law in 1986. Depends on what you consider “treat” and a hospital or dr. An ER has to treat you if you are dying or in danger, but if you don’t need emergency care they will treat and street. But you still get treated, which is why the overwhelming majority of ER visits are not emergencies at all. |
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Post by ericn on Nov 19, 2018 8:14:10 GMT -6
How do they get care if they don't have insurance? Tons of hospitals won't even admit you if you don't have insurance or a credit card, no matter how sick you are. fyi this isn’t true or legal and hasn’t been for a long time. Go walk into MD Anderson tell them you have cancer and no insurance or Medicare / Medicade, unless you fall into a funded study or they decide you are “educational case” you will be told to either walk down the street to Ben Taub or drive down to UTMB. These are the institutions of last resort and they legally can’t turn you away. I know way to many cases where this is the case. |
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Post by ericn on Nov 19, 2018 9:30:37 GMT -6
Depends on what you consider “treat” and a hospital or dr. An ER has to treat you if you are dying or in danger, but if you don’t need emergency care they will treat and street. But you still get treated, which is why the overwhelming majority of ER visits are not emergencies at all. Part of the problem, ask any ER doc is in many cases treated in the ER often means a script for 10 days and a referral to a specialist for on going care that never happens creating a sicker patient, seen it way to often, nobody but the government or hospital administrators consider this to be treating a patient. This problem has only been made worse with hospitals banning drug rep samples, everybody knew in many cases these were the primary source of medicine for the poor. |
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Nov 19, 2018 11:47:32 GMT -6
fyi this isn’t true or legal and hasn’t been for a long time. Go walk into MD Anderson tell them you have cancer and no insurance or Medicare / Medicade, unless you fall into a funded study or they decide you are “educational case” you will be told to either walk down the street to Ben Taub or drive down to UTMB. this is what i was referring to about being refused service. |
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