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@jayloo
Ok, here's another disgusting bit:
Not all hospitals are required to care for you. If you have no health insurance and are, as ehren was, beaten on the way home (or for god's sake, ANYTHING!), and you take an ambulance, which takes you to a certain kind of hospital, perhaps private? they are within their rights to turn you away. Yet you will still be sent a bill for the ambulance, which may be in excess of $800.
Or another:
I had cancer. I made too much for Planned Parenthood to deal with my shit for free, so my kindly doctor called Bellevue Hospital for me to make sure that I could have surgery for less. I only could because I was a massage therapist who happened to have had a slow month (i.e., making less than $1000). I had surgery, which would have cost me upwards of $3000 for $600. I had one post-op exam, a month later? After that, it was up to me to call the hospital every single day to have the requested 6 month exams for a year and a half later because they could not schedule women for "well" visits. Did I go to any after that one post-op visit? No. Because I could not get one, nor could I afford to go anywhere else. Technically, I could, but it would have gone on my credit card and I had no idea how much it would have cost.
Oh, right, and now b/c I've had cancer I could potentially be turned down for private insurance.