If he is in a Virginia hospital, and getting medicaid, does that mean my taxes here are paying for his treatment?
Why didn't medicaid require that he go to a hospital in his home state?
Better question: Why didn't medicaid cover his surgery?
And, not to ask too many questions, but why would a hospital not operate on a patient that can't pay? That doesn't sound like John's Hopkins to me....
Or better question: If you are destitute, do you deserve to go to the best hospital in the world for your procedure just because you are famous? If JHU is really not operating on people unless they pay cash in advance, aren't there any poor unknown people (people who are poor for reasons other than having quit their job to become famous) who would be better recipients of a free medical procedure at the best hospital in the world?
Last question: If he couldn't pay for a medical procedure, how could he pay for all these flights all over the country that he was taking before his surgery?
I hope that he ends up healthy, but the story has a lot of holes.
Virginia Mason is in Seattle.
Johns Hopkins requires payment in advance for non-emergency surgeries. If you show up in an ambulance or a medevac helicopter, they will take care of you whether you can pay or not.
Virginia Mason is a hospital in Seattle.