Your insite on health care in the usa

[Sib]

Fair enough. What happens to them afterwards if they don't have the money to pay? Do they have to work out a repayment plan? Declare bankruptcy? It would be good to know for when people talk shite about US health care in the UK.

Just in case you are looking into this, I pay about £800 a person on a corporate plan for my employees for maximum cover. This is much cheaper than doing it as an individual and worth looking into if you want cover. Also look for an insurer that pools risk across the demographic instead of one that will raise your renewal to get their money back every time someone gets sick.

[CommanderFun]

And people in NYC.

He already included thieves in the statement.

Mainland and island Europeans don’t even base their lack of knowledge on the American healthcare system on media reports, but on Hollywood movies.

You mean the ones where the doctor asks someone if they have insurance, and then throws them out of the hospital when they say no? God, that is one seriously tired ass joke, but I guess one good thing about Obamacare is that Hollywood stopped including it in TV and movies.

[gadders]

They work out a payment plan, something affordable for them. I know people paying $50/month on a large bill. Or the provider gets tired of it and writes it off. Bankrupt is better than dead, I'm sure you'll agree. Bankrupt is over in 7 years, dead is not.

Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.

But you still don't believe me. Propaganda is a powerful tool. We need to start using it ourselves.

[Jovan Dragisic]

You mean the ones where the doctor asks someone if they have insurance, and then throws them out of the hospital when they say no? God, that is one seriously tired ass joke, but I guess one good thing about Obamacare is that Hollywood stopped including it in TV and movies.

Most of the movies didn't even have those kinds of scenes. It was always pure exposition, always repeating what gadders wrote, like you got no money, you getz no treatment, if you getz treatment, you goes bankrupt. It is always good to keep the message simple.

[gadders]

Most of the movies didn't even have those kinds of scenes.

Movies? It's implied by the BBC when they cover any change to the NHS that might make it slightly more commercial.

[Jovan Dragisic]

You are right, I forgot about the BBC. The root of most evil in the world.

[Steven Kalin]

You are right, I forgot about the BBC. The root of most evil in the world.

You have no idea. Check out the Canadian version (CBC).

[dmitry]

Payment is expected, obviously, but not before the services are provided. Everyone must receive treatment, and that is the law. If you can't pay, then you can't pay.

Mark, do you think it is good that hospitals are required by law to treat everybody?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Mark, do you think it is good that hospitals are required by law to treat everybody?

No, and I don't think it would be good if gyms were required by law to have leg extension machines. Unless the government owned the hospitals. Or the gyms. Then it's out of my hands.