Debts are paid out of an estate when it is settled, I’m certainly not advocating against that.
I was just pointin’ out the big picture of how things work and who’s behind it.
Kind of “a word to the wise is sufficient”, a warning to those considering accepting medicaid.
It is commonly touted as a form of government charity - it’s not technically said or written that way by news media, liberals, etc., but they constantly leave out the “fine print” that the billing person goes over with you when they try to get you to sign on the dotted line. So liberals constantly imply that it is a government charity.
Those billing people will use the most deceptive tactics to get people to sign.
The medical industry simply wants to get rid of the idea of their not legally being able to refuse care and accepting a monthly payment of any size as repayment - and not being able to confiscate primary residence, etc. My parents did this one time, they repaid a bill over a few years when they had no insurance and did not have enough liquid assets; they wisely did not want to touch medicaid with a ten-foot pole.
Whenever the patient has no responsibility to pay fee for service, the patient ceases to care about how large the bill is and this allows for - thus encourages - ridiculous overbilling.
The major source of the problem of people not having much cash to pay at the time of service, and not having much in the way of investment assets when they get older, is the change in mentality that the sheeple have been molded into by various efforts in the 20th century. Consumer debt, breakdown of the family, immorality, etc. All these things yield a population of people that live hand-to-mouth their whole life and have nothing when they get old. Of course, private charity is what should be providing for the sick and the poor. However, in this new world order nation, charity has been coopted into a tax dodge industry which has hundreds of billions of capital under its management and is entirely devoted to perpetuating the cultural changes mentioned above. So instead of charitable monies going to help the sick and the poor, in the US they are used to convince the population to don the velvet chains with which they are to be enslaved.
I understand. It is not so cut and dried. And the government is not being completely honest up front.
Regardless, I believe there is enough discussion in what’s left of free America for those concerned about their loved ones, those who KNOW there is no such thing as a free lunch to at least take the time to investigate.