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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe most Expense Health Care there is,,,,,,,
ER Health Care!
Sombody making $24K/yr can not afford to pay $14/yr for TrumpCare!
And they can't afford ER Heath Care either!
Who will pick up the bill?
It will be passed on to all who have insurance and higher local taxes!
These TrumpCare Bean Counters should not be allow to be anywhere near
gubermint revenue and policy making!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)All they do is treat the immediate consequences of a serious illness or accident, then they send you home. And they will bill you for it; somehow there's this myth floating around that ER services are free for the patient, but they are not. You can seldom get any kind of ER treatment for under $1,000, and you'll be stuck with the tab. If you can't pay it and they finally give up after dunning you and finally sending the bill to collection, that unreimbursed cost is added to their overhead and eventually passed on to other patients.
But if you need physical therapy after an accident, or dialysis, or chemo for cancer treatment, you can't get that at the ER, so if you have no insurance, tough beans for you.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,336 posts)ret5hd
(20,480 posts)in a year or so we might both be digging back thru here trying to find it!
God, I kill me!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)You see the plan is to STOP requiring insurance companies or governments paying into the system that pays for uninsured.
Right now some hospitals are required to take the uninsured, these are almost all FOR profit hospitals. Soon, once the GOP and Ryan change it, they wont have to.
So there will be no cost to deal with, just death.
Trust me on this, this is the part of the plan they dont want anyone knowing about.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)some hospitals to treat those without funds that go back way before ACA. but even if what u are saying true,,,,, the cost of people dying on the sidewalks will be as great as if the cost of ER care is passed on to those with insurance.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)But we need to BELIEVE that the GOP thinks there are limited HC resources, unlike the rest of the world, and they believe if you and I get care, theirs will be diminished
And our deaths dont matter to them, at all.
We need to believe that, because it is true.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)is futile.... the only chance is that they will come to realize the not providing insurance for all is going to cost them $ in the long run!
napi21
(45,806 posts)matter if they are for profit or not for profit. That law was passed in 1986.
Here's a link to when it was passed and the requirements of the ER. They must stabilize the patient, If the situation is NOT an emergency, they are referred to their own Dr. or local clinic.
http://www.insure.com/health-insurance/emergency-rights.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)isnt it..
They will change the law.