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To: Gunslingr3
.. is born by the paying customers, or the business folds.

And, yet, eleven states, including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Vermont and Washington have outlawed the practice of suing a surviving spouse for medical debt incurred by their deceased spouse as it violates the Equal Protection clause.

See: Doctrine of Necessaries

Somehow, hospitals in these states stay in business without going after surviving spouses.

86 posted on 03/30/2023 6:40:30 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

Yes, by charging people who didn’t receive the services higher rates to compensate for the deadbeats (pun intended).
There’s no free lunch, Keith just wants someone else to pay for the treatments his wife received.


87 posted on 03/30/2023 7:06:48 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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