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I don't know the origin, but I could give you a dozen stories like it. I'm a young adult cancer survivor who leads a group of other local adolescent and young adult cancer survivors - being able to stay on their parents' insurance until 26 or having access to the MassHealth system is the only reason some of them are alive here today.
A hospital would only have treated the woman in the picture with surgery as charity care if her organs were shutting down in an ER.
Thats not at all true. Hospitals will provide care and then submit the bill to the state if she was unable to pay.
I don't know where you dug that up from.
The state will pay if she was on Medicaid. The state is not obligated to pay hospital bills for anyone that can't pay. If that were true, those who couldn't pay would never work out payment plans or go into debt on their credit cards.
The state will pay if she was on Medicaid. The state is not obligated to pay hospital bills for anyone that can't pay. If that were true, those who couldn't pay would never work out payment plans or go into debt on their credit cards.
LOL...don't waste your time. These guys are so intransigent no matter how much you keep showing then how wrong they are. They simply can't deal with cognitive dissonance, so they just keep parroting what they hear on Limbaugh and Hannity.
LOL...don't waste your time. These guys are so intransigent no matter how much you keep showing then how wrong they are. They simply can't deal with cognitive dissonance, so they just keep parroting what they hear on Limbaugh and Hannity.
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Thats not at all true. Hospitals will provide care and then submit the bill to the state if she was unable to pay.
They will provide emergency care. My oncologist would not have "billed the state" to give me chemo had I not been insured - he simply would not have treated me. Sure, I would have gotten some help finding funds, but by then my tumors would have continued to press on my heart, lungs, and spine.
Thank your lucky stars that you clearly have never experienced this type of struggle yourself or in your family.
Better that than having useless insurance that covers essentially nothing.
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