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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
So, if "you (that person)" cannot pay we all have to pay collectively (the Government pays).
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How does that work exactly? If I get in a wreck and can't pay...how does the govt. "pay" for it?
I've never heard of that.
Matter of fact, when I DID get in a serious car wreck and broke my neck and both arms in 2002...I did not have health insurance. I only had car insurance. And it paid a max of $25,000 (there was only my vehicle involved).
I owed over a $100,000 dollars to the hospital, surgeons, etc.
The govt. didn't pay that. Neither did you or anybody else.
When I was released from the hospital a month later...they sent me a bill. And I began paying it in monthly payments.
Then, after about a year...one of the upper management of the big company that owned the hospital called me and told me the "real" price of my hospital stay: a little over $15,000
The rest of it were overblown prices designed for insurance company paperwork.
So I paid it off and was done.
Are you saying that the govt. comes in and pays our tax money to big privately owned multi-billion dollar medical corp.'s when someone has a wreck and can't pay it?
Really?
That's a hell of a scam.
I wonder if I could get the govt. to pay me whenever somebody does a chargeback?
Must be nice to be in the medical industry or insurance industry huh?