Reply #6: This was all done in the name of making a profit by this hospital. [View All]

[jemelanson]

I am sure that this type of action is used to pressure women to sign this pre-consent form. Then it is up to the hospital, based upon the kind of insurance that the woman has, and the hospital's need to take care of their bottom line (profit) and what they can get the insurance to pay for. Also, most insurance does not pay 100% of any procedure so the hospital can then go after the patient for the unpaid 20% or so. In order to make this process easier on the bottom line of the hospital the women when she is admitted to the hospital is pressured to sign this form, just in case.

There used to be non-profit county hospital or city hospitals. Those hospitals did not turn anyone away because they had no insurance or means to pay. So many of those hospitals have been privatized and the "corporation" that owns and operates that now for profit hospital is more concerned about making a profit for the share holders than any thing else.


This is along the same vein as all of the GOP's push to privatize everything from Social Security, to Medicare, to Public Utilities, to Fire Departments, to Public Schools. That way some corporation can make money off of it. Remember that story a while back about the family in I think it was Tenn. That forgot to pay they annual fee to the new privatized Fire Department, so when their was a fire, the new privately owned fire department dispatched a fire truck, but because of the Lack of the Fee, $75.00 I think, the fire truck and the crew on board had to sit and watch that home burn to the ground. they had to stay and make sure that the house next door which had paid the fee did not catch fire. It is all a part of the same agenda.

I am heart broken for that poor family that after three years are still fighting to get their child back. This is horrible. It needs to be brought into the light and exposed for the criminal act that it is.



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