That's the Murrican way!

This is what we can look forward to with socialized medicine!

Er...

Uhm....

Oh.

"Automation" my ass.

Shall we recite the pledge of allegiance now?

"P.S. Don't expect the U.C. Davis Medical Center to send any flowers to your upcoming GAY WEDDING either, you indigent slacker."

Well that's not gonna good for anybody.

fark anyone who's against universal health care.

Yes, this means you.

It happens, I'm paid up with the hospital, and they keep sending me billing for 47K

YAY FREE MARKETS!

Do go on Fark Independents^TM, I'm very interested in your other free market solutions. They've done so well everywhere else.

/I can't wait until my police and fire services are privatized.

baka-san: It happens, I'm paid up with the hospital, and they keep sending me billing for 47K


After my son was born, the hospital sent us a bill for $49,000.

They were only off by a factor of 98.

Blues_X: baka-san: It happens, I'm paid up with the hospital, and they keep sending me billing for 47K

After my son was born, the hospital sent us a bill for $49,000.

Oh my total bill was originally over $70K, they took a flat pay of $15,000. Thing is, financial services(who I dealt with) is located in the hospital, billing is off site.

Is there no belief left in personal responsibility? Would it have been so difficult for the patient to let the hospital know he was dead?

whiskeyinthejar: fark anyone who's against universal health care.

Yes, this means you.

You're a farking socialist. I'm not paying any more taxes for your unemployed ass to get health insurance. Get a job and get insurance. And don't drive my rates up when you are employed and get on my health plan when you are employed, fatass.

/I think I covered everything

It's not the hospital's fault that he was both lacking in health insurance AND life insurance.

I'm wondering how hospitals can tell a patient not to come back?

Gwendolyn: I'm wondering how hospitals can tell a patient not to come back?

They can't...they have to treat anybody in a life threatening state.

Once they stabilize ya, they can send you to the public e-room.

Gwendolyn: I'm wondering how hospitals can tell a patient not to come back?

By letting him die? That should pretty much ensure that a patient never comes back.

Deadhouseplants: Gwendolyn: I'm wondering how hospitals can tell a patient not to come back?

By letting him die? That should pretty much ensure that a patient never comes back.

Apparently not as much as you'd think, since they had to command him not to come back once he was dead.

ZOMBIE PATIENTS

Hau Ruck: whiskeyinthejar: fark anyone who's against universal health care.

Yes, this means you.

You're a farking socialist. I'm not paying any more taxes for your unemployed ass to get health insurance. Get a job and get insurance. And don't drive my rates up when you are employed and get on my health plan when you are employed, fatass.

/I think I covered everything

(You forgot the death squads)

I sincerely hope that public health care goes through. I've been eligible for health benefits at my current job for over a month now and they still won't give me them.

I am very much annoyed by this. The last thing anyone should have to worry about when needing medical help is the bill. They shouldn't have to weigh the pros and cons of "Hey, I was just in a car accident where I cracked the windshield with my head, maybe I should go see a doctor."

And the absolute LAST thing anyone should have to deal with when grieving for a dead son is an extraordinarily high bill from the hospital he died in.

From TFA: In addition to documenting the 5 minutes of emergency room work done, the envelope also included a letter to "the patient," saying Scott Hawkins was considered indigent and shouldn't come back for further treatment.


Did I read that wrong, or is the hospital charging $30,000 for 5 minutes worth of (failed) work?

ToxicMunkee: This is what we can look forward to with socialized medicine!

Er...

Uhm....

Oh.

Relevant article (new window).

He shouldn't have gotten himself beaten to death if he couldn't afford it.

ToxicMunkee:

(You forgot the death squads)

I thought it was death panels, but you're right. I missed those. If people are allowed to die more quickly, especially fatties, our health care costs will go down, right? I'm tired of subsidizing fatasses and smokers, they don't deserve healthcare because they made a choice to be fat and smoke.

/2nd attempt, Am I doing it right?

Private Healthcare would never fark up like that!!!!!!

must be some socialized bullshiat

I can understand why they don't want the kid back. He's a deadbeat.

Hau Ruck: whiskeyinthejar: fark anyone who's against universal health care.

Yes, this means you.

You're a farking socialist. I'm not paying any more taxes for your unemployed ass to get health insurance. Get a job and get insurance. And don't drive my rates up when you are employed and get on my health plan when you are employed, fatass.

/I think I covered everything

Hau Ruck: You're a farking socialist. I'm not paying any more taxes for your unemployed ass to get health insurance. Get a job and get insurance. And don't drive my rates up when you are employed and get on my health plan when you are employed, fatass.

/I think I covered everything

Damn straight I'm a farking socialist, if by socialist you mean somebody who thinks the wealthiest nation on the planet ought to be able to provide a minimal level of health care for all its citizens. I think not having people dying in the streets is a laudable expression of the highest ideals of the founders, okay? If you think that makes me a socialist, so be it. I think it makes me a patriot, and I'll take my genuinely Christian values over your blood-chilling Randian claptrap any day.

/not a Christian, btw
//and neither are you

CruiserTwelve: I can understand why they don't want the kid back. He's a deadbeat.

I giggled, saw who posted it, and giggled more.

/not embarrassed to giggle or google

If the kid is over 18, his debt died with him.

Quran Jones was just keeping it real (new window)

TFA: Slain Sac State Student's Parents Stunned by Hospital Bill, Letter

Try saying that five times fast.

Seems a typical clerical error rather than them actually expecting payment.

You still get the occasional incidence in the UK where parents of dead children are threatened with court action because their kid wasn't in class.

People sometimes make mistakes putting info into databases! More at 10!

Dude. He had a preexisting condition. It's not their fault if it just happened to be death.

Sad for their loss. Been there, done that. Hospitals can be so frikkin' heartless.

Hau Ruck: /I can't wait until my police and fire services are privatized.

Computer generated billing. big deal.

Krissikins The Avenger: Dude. He had a preexisting condition. It's not their fault if it just happened to be death.

This should have at least come up in the daily death panel meeting in the basement of the hospital.

klparrot: TFA: Slain Sac State Student's Parents Stunned by Hospital Bill, Letter

Try saying that five times fast.

That five times fast.

/fails to see the difficulty

Riche: From TFA: In addition to documenting the 5 minutes of emergency room work done, the envelope also included a letter to "the patient," saying Scott Hawkins was considered indigent and shouldn't come back for further treatment.


Did I read that wrong, or is the hospital charging $30,000 for 5 minutes worth of (failed) work?

THIS

Can anyone enlighten me as to why medical care costs so much? Could they just be making everything a factor of 10 more expensive than it really is?

Came to make a deadbeat joke. I guess the student isnt the only one who has been beaten.

One could say his credit got killed?

I hope he doesn't beat himself up over this?

Boy - hospital bills can be murder...

\i got nuthin

This is outrageous. That this hospital would intentionally and maliciously send the bill to the parents instead of the insurance company is bad enough, but sarcastically taunting them Fark-style over their son's death is unforgiveable.

wait a tick. Don't you have to pay the bill even if the dude died? Whats the probelm here?

If the college student was 18 or older, he would have been responsible for his own bills. So why would his parents be on the hook for the $30k?

etobian: If the college student was 18 or older, he would have been responsible for his own bills. So why would his parents be on the hook for the $30k?

Because in America's current completely broken healthcare system, hospitals are more interested in making money than treating patients. (I bet he'd have lived in a French ER.) They're probably trying to get whatever they can from both the parents and the insurance company.

First thing I thought of.



/DNRTFA