Reply #77: That depends on the county. [View All]

[Jamastiene]

In my county, you can be refused treatment. If you sign a contract that you'll pay, they'll still treat you, but it's not free for us poor people. I got news for you. You are not paying my bills. Either way, if you are poor you lose everything if you cannot pay a bill for thousands of dollars. Trust me, we pay. Not you. I know that for a fact. I paid every red cent of the hospital and doctor and anesthesiologist and everyone else with initials behind their name who walked by while I was out cold, and saw my chart in the little plastic thing on the door.

I paid the costs for the removal of my own goddamn gall stones, thank you very much. No one else did.

If you want somewhere to point the finger for super high costs of health care, look at the overcharges for stupid shit like Q-Tips that cost $5 a piece, only in hospitals. Also take a close look at the "administrators," aka overpaid jackasses who sit on their asses every single day and whine about how hard they are working when they do nothing but show up and sit on their asses for a living. That money could go to paying for the health care of sick people.