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Originally Posted by kane
For example, if you have a broken arm or need an emergency surgery for your appendix they will fix that problem so you can get better. They will then bill you.
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How much? Say for the ambulance transfer, appendix surgery and the hospital stay + meds?
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Originally Posted by kane
Now, if you have ongoing issues they may or may not treat you. Say for example you have some kind of injury that requires physical therapy. The hospital may determine that your financial situation is such that they will treat you for free and write it off. If you have cancer they may choose not to treat you and require you to pay for you chemo or other treatments in advance. It really is a case by case basis.
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I see, but actually it sounds really scare. Especially about the cancer. In my country everybody will get a free treatment in case of cancer, HIV or any other potential fatal disease. Course that will be not the best meds, but at least they will be the essential ones. So does it mean that in your country a person with a cancer, hepatitis or HIV will left to die if he/she has no paid insurance money for the meds?
For example, my father is a former boxer, so he has a Parkinson's disease, and ye is receiving all the meds for free. Even his wheelchair is free because he is disabled.