outlawauron on 16 October 2015
| Hiku said: Getting sick if poor sounds pretty scary. Your family may have gotten by, but there are a lot of scary stories about insurances not covering necessary operations or medicine. Even something as simple as getting bit by a dog cost my friend in Florida $4000 out of his own pocket for the shots, and he's a student. |
Honestly, your friend is either completely stupid or lied about his situation. Costs are high becausde hospitals expect the poorest patients to not be able to pay for the costs of their care. US hospitals are required by law to treat people who come into the ER regardless of their ability to pay it (which is what has lead to health care reform in the first place, people not paying for insurance). So, if he truly didn't have the money or ability to pay for his care, they would have worked with him so he would haven't had to pay for all of it.
