People NEED to be refused care if there is no ability to pay.
It’s cruel, but so is reality. You expect doctors, etc, to work for free ? Try calling a plumber, if you can’t pay him. . . .
People NEED to be refused care if there is no ability to pay.
It doesn’t work that way currently. Anyone who calls 911 and wants to be transported to a hospital gets an $800 taxi ride. When they get to the hospital, the hospital treats them for whatever their complaint is. They do not get turned away and most of them who either do not have insurance or have a typical Obamacare plan with a $5000 deductible have no intention of ever paying anyone. In our state public hospitals do not have the option of turning them away.
If they have a chronic problem they keep calling back and we keep transporting. One alcoholic in our jurisdiction ran up over $2,000,000 in unpaid ambulance and hospital bills. Of course when he finally got too old to keep up his errant ways, and was put in a supervised long term care facility he was celebrated by the local media as some type of hero.
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