The emergency room is required by law to provide emergency lifesaving medical procedures for immediate life threatening conditions.
Nothing more.
Quick primer on how this works:
By law the emergency room is mandated to treat you up to the point where you can be discharged.
Over here and in every other UHC system the medical system is mandated to be curative.
How does that work?
If you get treated in an ER for a heart attack, they stabilize your condition, perscribe anti coagulants, nitro glycerine pills etc, then dump your arse.
Over here, they do that too, then schedule the bypass surgery or the valve replacement required to cure that condition.
Net result being that you don't show up in the ER again.
They can still bill the recipient - they only fail with those who are indigent - as long as they got a consent form signed at any point.
Those who aren't indigent, by and large don't present to ERs as primary care.
Guy gets carried in bleeding by Firefighters who happened across him and he, upon awakening refuses to sign, might get the bill passed on.
Guy comes in with no insurance and terminal cancer and unless Medicaid covers the treatment he's out of luck.
Then it isn't a health
care system. It's a helath
treatment system.
I don't want to pay for some bums Medicaid.
People can choose to live within their means or forgo medical insurance, the same choice I make. There is no excuse to charge me for a national health insurance scam
Until of course you or your family need it.....
