"I don't wanna sound gay or nuthin, but...."

/"that's some hot (linked) shiat"

Pay for an ambulance?

What a backward country.

Glasgowsfinest: Pay for an ambulance?
What a backward country.

Bingo.

$700 to bring a badly burned infant to the hospital? This is a joke, right? People don't do that, do they?

7of7: Bingo.

Indeed.

Though, you'd think that at least she could have taken regular transit there or gotten a ride sooner than a month?

But maybe it didn't look so bad, really? Considering she'd also have a bill for treating the kid after all, that will make the $700 look like a walk in the park? Not enough details in the article to know.

Why do complete idiots reproduce?

This is unfair to the mother. If you are a poor person with no medical training, its not an easy choice between paying a huge amount of money for an ambulance and waiting it out to see if your kid is really hurt. It's ridiculous she would even need to pay for an ambulance.

DamnYankees: This is unfair to the mother. If you are a poor person with no medical training, its not an easy choice between paying a huge amount of money for an ambulance and waiting it out to see if your kid is really hurt. It's ridiculous she would even need to pay for an ambulance.

Not to mention all the threads where we flame and laugh at those irresponsible poor people who supposedly call an ambulance for a skinned knee and go to the emergency room when they have a cold.

They didn't take him in for weeks?

I can understand that for a non-life threatening issue, a $700 bill for an ambulance is a definite consideration - but for God's sake, call a taxi or take a freakin' bus.

fuzzwell: Why do complete idiots reproduce?

exactly. let's see... a 5-month-old, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old, live in a hotel, and apparently no car. awesome

Mom?


where's the Bactine?

xpennyroyaltyx: $700 to bring a badly burned infant to the hospital? This is a joke, right? People don't do that, do they?

yes, yes they do.
And that infant, assuming it survives, will rack up a shiatload of bills from the hospital that may or may not be covered if the member has health insurance. Which, based on the headline, I'm guessing they don't.

I don't believe her. Every ghetto mom knows you give a fake name to the hospital/ambulance driver. They hurt this kid, accidentally or otherwise, and didn't want people to see.

fuzzwell: Why do complete idiots reproduce?

Three times. Two year old, one year old, and five month old. Damn. That lot is fertile.

From the article it didn't seem the injury was life-threatening. Mom doesn't have a car, can't afford an ambulance... welcome to America. Remind me not to move there.

I don't know nuthin about bathin' no babies.....

How is babby warmed?

/stolen

With hair like hers are you surprised she makes bad choices?

xpennyroyaltyx: $700 to bring a badly burned infant to the hospital? This is a joke, right? People don't do that, do they?

Yep. The price we pay for low(ish) taxes. We have the best healthcare in the world....so long as you can afford it.

I find it amazing that people wayyyyyyyy dumber than me are able to have children, and that these children somehow survive to become dysfunctional society leeching adults. You'd figure darwin would somehow do these kids in before their age hits double digits.

good god, she looks retarded. i cant believe there are people that would fark that. i guess every jar has a lid.

SilentStrider: xpennyroyaltyx: $700 to bring a badly burned infant to the hospital? This is a joke, right? People don't do that, do they?

yes, yes they do.
And that infant, assuming it survives, will rack up a shiatload of bills from the hospital that may or may not be covered if the member has health insurance. Which, based on the headline, I'm guessing they don't.

Childrens mercy is a pretty good hospital actually. I volunteered in the assistance office and they would have been willing to reduce if not waive the fees.

They will treat anyone who arrives, so i think its BS. Commonly, Childrens is the hospital you go to without insurance :(

We have such a farked up healthcare system here.

Glasgowsfinest: Pay for an ambulance?

What a backward country.

Because in other countries ambulance drivers work for free and ambulances and the fuel they run on just magically appear and maintain themselves. We are backward for not having discovered the magical powers of socialism.

FTFA: "Hospital photos showed the baby had burns to the stomach, thighs and butt area."

Did a hospital really describe a patient as having burns to "the butt area"?

Cue the lawsuit in 3...2...1...

The hot water shouldnt have been scolding in a hotel, Is gunna sues thems!

Not being able to afford an ambulance is one thing.

Denying your child medical attention for weeks is another.

You see, this is what happens when you have socialized health care! Way to go, Obama!

/wait what?

You don't wait "weeks" to take your kids to the hospital just because you can't find a ride.

The boy's parents, Erica Davis & Jake Fisher III, said he was accidentally burned with hot water during a bath.

Bullshiat. They were punishing/abusing the kid. They didn't take the kid to the hospital because they wanted it to suffer.

She's pretty much screwed either way. You take your baby in, you get saddled with debt you can't ever pay off. You don't take your baby in, the police throw you in jail. If we as a society truly cared about the welfare of children (or our people in general), this wouldn't even be an issue.

Oh and...



Knows something about leaving hot water running on babies.

DamnYankees: This is unfair to the mother. If you are a poor person with no medical training, its not an easy choice between paying a huge amount of money for an ambulance and waiting it out to see if your kid is really hurt. It's ridiculous she would even need to pay for an ambulance.

Actually, this isn't just limited to the poor. I work a fairly high-paying job, but my insurance through my employer is one of those stupid high deductible plans with an HSA (thank you, President Bush, for your half-assed attempt at fixing health care). So as a result, EVERYTHING is out-of-pocket until you hit your ridiculously high family deductible (or out-of-HSA, which I just opened this year, so I haven't got much saved yet).

This is just dandy when, in the middle of the night on a weekend, your two-year-old wakes up crying holding his throat making strange raspy sounds. I had suspected that perhaps my four-year-old had accidentally stepped on his throat, but I wasn't sure. So I was weighing whether or not to take him to the ER and pay through the nose. In the end, I decided he looked like he was breathing okay and I would revisit the decision in the morning.

Turned out, he had just caught a chest cold and the symptoms had manifested in his sleep that night. So if I had taken him to the ER, it would have been for nothing.

I am still so pissed that my insurance puts me in a position where I have to weigh my children's well-being against my out-of-pocket costs. It's stupid and dangerous.

See, in America, the only people who deserve to have health care are the rich, and those who can afford coverage. We are doing our part in eliminating poverty by eliminating poor people, homeless people, and people without decent jobs that offer health care.

With our pathetic excuse of an education system, we're poised to become the dumbest, fattest, richest farkers on the planet ...

waitaminnit ... this just in ... we already ARE the dumbest, fattest, richest farkers on the planet ....

USA! USA!

I was in a car accident in the 90's. Because my car rolled, "somebody" driving by called an ambulance on their cell phone. Despite not being hurt, I got in the ambulance "just in case".

Just in case I needed to spend $1400 for ambulance and emergency room treatment for...wiping off the dirt on my face???

The one and only ambulance ride I ever took cost me 40$ cause I was in a car accident that I was automatically charged for (no fault accidents) ;)

I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU!!!!!

By law in the US, the indigent must be given medical treatment. (That's part of why insurance premiums are so high for those who have insurance.) The ambulance ride would've been free, and she most likely knew it. My brother is an EMT in Detroit, and picking up folks with mysterious abdominal complaints just because they want a ride to the hospital and a night in a warm bed with a meal is part of the routine. I'm sure Mama in this case knew she wouldn't be charged for any of her baby's treatment (Medicaid and other programs would cover the cost) - it's just that something hinky was going on and she didn't want medical personnel to know about it. Either the baby wasn't burned by accident, or she was afraid that Social Services would find out they have five people living in one hotel room, or whatever.

qsblues: See, in America, the only people who deserve to have health care are the rich, and those who can afford coverage. We are doing our part in eliminating poverty by eliminating poor people, homeless people, and people without decent jobs that offer health care.

With our pathetic excuse of an education system, we're poised to become the dumbest, fattest, richest farkers on the planet ...

waitaminnit ... this just in ... we already ARE the dumbest, fattest, richest farkers on the planet ....

USA! USA!

We should step it up a bit and offer licenses to hunt the poor.

IonBeam2: Because in other countries ambulance drivers work for free and ambulances and the fuel they run on just magically appear and maintain themselves. We are backward for not having discovered the magical powers of socialism.

A nerve, I touched it.

Ambulances here are paid for out of taxes to avoid people being too poor to call one if they need it.

We don't consider this socialism.

As someone who works all week. I am not high paid but I pay for healthcare, I do not have 5 kids I cannot afford and I save. So whose fault is it that scum reproduces and has no jobs. How do they even survive with all those kids in a hotel. you know they do not have jobs.


//maybe she should babysit or something
///joking

xpennyroyaltyx: $700 to bring a badly burned infant to the hospital? This is a joke, right? People don't do that, do they?

I called an ambulance to take me to the hospital (frightfully painful kidney stone) Hospital is 3 miles way ---- the bill for that ride? A cool $1250 --- and they didn't even use the emergency lights or siren. Fortunately I pay a $3.50 fee per month to cover this.

fuzzwell: Why do complete idiots reproduce?

Because they get paid to do so...

IonBeam2: Glasgowsfinest: Pay for an ambulance?

What a backward country.

Because in other countries ambulance drivers work for free and ambulances and the fuel they run on just magically appear and maintain themselves. We are backward for not having discovered the magical powers of socialism.

Other countries do not face parents with the choice of getting their kids to treatment or bankruptcy. And for the fun bit: Other countries still pay less per capita. Or as a percentage of GDP.

In horrible, socialist places like Sweden or Germany, people are not faced with the dilemma of getting an ambulance or paying the rent.

Because no one in the history of earth has ever lost a job once they already have kids.

Erik_Emune: Other countries do not face parents with the choice of getting their kids to treatment or bankruptcy. And for the fun bit: Other countries still pay less per capita. Or as a percentage of GDP.

The US is willing to pay a great deal for the sake of ideological correctness.

Erik_Emune: IonBeam2: Glasgowsfinest: Pay for an ambulance?

What a backward country.

Because in other countries ambulance drivers work for free and ambulances and the fuel they run on just magically appear and maintain themselves. We are backward for not having discovered the magical powers of socialism.

Other countries do not face parents with the choice of getting their kids to treatment or bankruptcy. And for the fun bit: Other countries still pay less per capita. Or as a percentage of GDP.

In horrible, socialist places like Sweden or Germany, people are not faced with the dilemma of getting an ambulance or paying the rent.

Nobody You Know: I was in a car accident in the 90's. Because my car rolled, "somebody" driving by called an ambulance on their cell phone. Despite not being hurt, I got in the ambulance "just in case".

Just in case I needed to spend $1400 for ambulance and emergency room treatment for...wiping off the dirt on my face???

I went to the hospital two hours after scratching my cornea
on a flying plastic chip, hammer was involved...
I knew it was scratched and would heal fine with time,
but after a couple hours I realized it was more painful than I could ignore. Someone looked at my eye for half a minute, and I was prescribed 10 painkillers.
No insuance. Bill $1400 not including cost of painkillers.

/SOS
//the hospital I was born in told me it would not serve me because I had no insurance. I told them I could pay out of pocket instantly, as I always had, and... They said I must meet with the Financial Counselor, who told me the hospital no longer deals with individuals, only insurance companies. It was very surreal, having to meet with a counselor because I can pay for myself without a pimp insurance company...
I ended up having to put down a $100 deposit before my bloodtest.
they billed me for the remainder and a few weeks later sent me another bill for "reasons of no insurance". Even more surreal.

Mr.Z: xpennyroyaltyx: $700 to bring a badly burned infant to the hospital? This is a joke, right? People don't do that, do they?

I called an ambulance to take me to the hospital (frightfully painful kidney stone) Hospital is 3 miles way ---- the bill for that ride? A cool $1250 --- and they didn't even use the emergency lights or siren. Fortunately I pay a $3.50 fee per month to cover this.

I dont want to start a pissing contest here, but i walked into a hospital here in ft. lauderdale at ~3AM after i dislocated my shoulder. I have insurance. I paid my ~$100 ER co-pay, three nurses helped me take my shirt off, gave me some paperwork to fill out, the doctor told me to lay back, he lifted my arm so it slid back into socket, gave me a $2.00 sling, and sent me on my way after i refused X-Ray ( i was tired and drunk ok?).

I got the bill in the mail and it was a cool $1,700. $1,700 for what exactly? no xrays. No meds, no equipment at all used, except for the $2.00 sling. Thank god i had insurance!

Holy Cross Hospital, Ft. Lauderdale. FYI.

FTFA: He had taken his eyes off of him for "less than 30 seconds" to attend to his 1-year-old daughter who had defecated on the bathroom floor.

See, this is why I don't want kids. They shiat all over the place.

Glasgowsfinest: Pay for an ambulance?

What a backward country.

Came here to say this

That's liqua monies.

blueknight
good god, she looks retarded. i cant believe there are people that would fark that. i guess every jar has a lid.

You'd be surprised by the number of mentally retarded mothers I have to deal with.