Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money?
HamSwagwich@showeq.com 8 months ago
American hospitals cannot legally refuse to treat you even if they know you can’t pay/don’t have insurance. So worst case scenario is you go and have whatever done and they bill you and you don’t pay and it’s a write off for the hospital.
Often times, if you can’t pay they will offer a reduced amount to at least get something out of you if they know they won’t get anything otherwise.
XEAL@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Fucking crooks
iheartneopets@lemm.ee 8 months ago
People are thinking you mean the poor people, not the hospitals.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I’m just laughing at the absurdity of someone calling poor people who can’t afford their medical bills “fucking crooks” but that actually is a position I wouldn’t surprised to see these days.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not just these days. See Reagan and his lies about ‘welfare queens’ living off lobster and buying Cadillacs off of government money.
iheartneopets@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Unfortunately, yeah, it’s very common in the south, so I’m used to seeing it :( Even in the more ‘blue’ cities down here, it’s usually safer to assume that whoever you’re talking to is a republican piece of shit, or else has holdover ideas (like ‘the poor don’t deserve handouts’) from being raised that way.
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s very expensive to be poor.