“When you don’t have health insurance (like us), this sort of thing doesn’t happen.”
Interesting. You explanation might be valuable to a lot of us.
I’d say those parents just need to declare bankruptcy and get on with their lives.
Seems like a hospital shouldn’t build up a huge bill without checking along the way if the patient can pay.
I’d say those parents just need to declare bankruptcy and get on with their lives.
If they have a low or negative net worth, bankruptcy may be an option if no other choice but a medium or high net worth and it would definitely not be worth it.
My wife & I had a son that had extensive medical problems that claimed his life after 25 months. The entirety of his many months in the hospital was along with children of parents who were either on welfare or had no ability to pay. There were also many self pay people who would come from around the world to have their children treated at The Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital.
Many of the children did not have insurance or Medicaid. Their treatment was no different.
The reality is that the United States has universal healthcare. It does however bill for it. We paid well over $100,000 in medical bills between him & his twin brother born at 32 weeks, spent 27 days in NICU & were 3.3# & 3.8# at birth. The insurance company was billed over $12 million & paid out over $4 million.
This family needs a good attorney that will threaten a multi-million dollar law suite against both the hospital & the insurance company as well as advocate to the state board of insurance to censure, fine or even cancel the state license of the insurance company.
Considering the child died of an infection puts the hospital directly in the cross hairs of an ambulance chaser. The insurance debacle puts it in the wheelhouse of a big law firm .