Being very blunt, people are too scared to negotiate with hospitals to lower their bills or set up payment plans. I know someone who was charged 10k by a hospital after insurance covered everything else and he just took it instead of negotiating like I urged him to. I did a lot of research and it turns out that if a hospital is non profit, they have to forgive some patient debt to maintain that status. Quick grok overview states:
To think America would also be in this state if they didn't go "lol this guy is goofy lets pit him against the lady we set up to win" only for a halfway normal human being to be massively popular.
Unfortunately (at least around here) Life Flight is a privately operated company and not covered under insurance. It's kind of a scam, had a coworker tell me about the way it worked for his dad after a bad car accident. You come into the hospital in critical condition and unable to consent to anything, and the hospital makes the decision to call Life Flight to get you to a better equipped hospital as quickly as possible. They dispatch a helicopter and whether they end up taking you or not, you get billed for the dispatch. If they do take you, it's an even larger bill (coworker claims it was $600k+). Insurance does not cover any of it.
You don't need to be poor to do this. You can do this with ANY medical bill. Ask for a discount, offer less money up front than their response, and you will end up with a much lower bill.
The tea party was nothing more than an astroturf movement and its relevancy died 10 years ago, the fact the a person like this is effectively sabatoging the country so he can get a “own” on trump is proof that he shouldn't be taken seriously
varies WILDLY by where you are, mostly its about population density. somewhere like LA or New York City? TERRIBLE unless you have millionaire private care or need EMERGENCY service and I mean like fence pole in your left leg or actively having a heart attack, blood vomit might make the cut but maybe not, depends on how slammed they are.
Trump always takes an L when he shills for _____l
There’s always financial officers at hospitals, financial social workers, and if someone can’t figure out how to navigate it on their own there’s always the option to set up an in person appointment with a financial social worker to walk them through it.
Calgary is a provincial battleground city that just barely tipped for the UCP. Edmonton voluntarily voted itself into becoming a 15 minute city.
I will remind people Paul Ryan was the star of tea party. We do not want to go back to that.
Not only that, it kinda justifies the nazi's actions. It transformed them from...well, nazis...to a people using the jew's horror weapons against them. It didn't help that that literal jewish wizard that reveals all this to you is so off-putting and amoral.
Isn't that basically all the stuff Trump is trying to do anyway? I get wanting to make changes permanent through Congress but this nigga letting perfect be the enemy of good
Yes. USAID was cut 87 percent and we stopped sending money to ukraine but apparently not good enough
If the UCP changes leaders, you'll see things shift more in their favour. Smith pissed off a lot of people when she merged the Wild Rose party with the Conservative party, and many people refuse to support her for it, as she was the single most responsible person for the NDP winning in 2015 here.
