drxdrg08 t1_jbardx6 wrote
Reply to comment by Lunamothknits in Pennsylvania hospital wants to send woman in coma to Dominican Republic, against her family’s wishes by WITFnews
Why don't both of you send a check to cover her expenses?
Doctors aren't going to work for free, and medical equipment costs money. Somebody has to pay for it.
This naive take that everything should be free, and if it's not then it's a grave inhumane injustice is getting old.
jkooc137 t1_jbauzx6 wrote
Ah yes, the go fund me healthcare method, one of the main defects of the American medical system. If only there were some way to just take a little bit of money from everyone's paycheck and put it towards covering the cost of healthcare for literally everyone. "This naive take that everything should be free" like universal, tax funded, and not for profit healthcare systems just don't exist; not to mention they function better because people are more likely to go to the doctor regularly and catch health problems earlier which makes them significantly cheaper and easier to treat. Obviously these guys are saying that EVERYTHING should be free, and definitely not that extortion by price gouging the things people literally need to survive is wrong. It must suck to have to come up with flawed arguments to defend a system that generates a demonstrably worse outcome. Can't be one of those radicals who think taxes should go to social services instead just to the military industrial complex.
nttnypride t1_jbawk82 wrote
But how would universal healthcare for all work in the US? There’s so few examples, just Canada or France or Germany or Costa Rica or Spain or Ireland or Tunisia or Portugal or Norway or Australia or Japan or Netherlands or Iceland or New Zealand or Sweden or United Arab Emirates or….
drxdrg08 t1_jbawrn5 wrote
No universal care system anywhere in the world covers long term care for illegal aliens.
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbaub38 wrote
You might have some of the worst fakes I’ve seen on resdit. So much so that I recognize your handle lol rough one
drxdrg08 t1_jbav23y wrote
So who should pay?
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbayw0s wrote
The hospital could pay it pretty easily
drxdrg08 t1_jbb1af1 wrote
If a hospital provides free healthcare to non-paying patients, then the paying patients pick up the large bill for all.
A hospital doesn't print money. And what happens when you have too many non-paying patients?
> Hahnemann Hospital, which once served the city’s poorest patients, closed in September 2019. The hospital had been suffering millions of dollars in losses a month
pittsburghfun t1_jbbch7g wrote
Friend had a heath care crisis in Italy, was admitted for 3 days. No bills.
drxdrg08 t1_jbbdjra wrote
This illegal alien individual was admitted for 69 days and counting.
That's almost $200,000 if you take the average cost of a hospital bed per day.
They are not paying for any it either. People that pay health insurance will pay for it with higher medical cost and higher insurance premiums.
> On Dec. 29, 2022, a 46-year-old Dominican mother of two was admitted to Lehigh Valley Network’s Cedar Crest hospital
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbb64k5 wrote
Who said free? They can pay for it then bill them later and figure it out.
drxdrg08 t1_jbb85p3 wrote
> They can pay for it then bill them later and figure it out.
So hoping that illegal aliens pay hospital bills is your strategy for keeping the medical system in financial solvency?
Good luck with that.
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbbatsb wrote
Same strategy that’s in place now for people who go to the hospital without insurance yes.
drxdrg08 t1_jbbcmmc wrote
> that’s in place now
I think you missed the part about the illegal alien being at the center of this case. And how millions more are coming across the border right now. It's not sustainable.
You can either have open borders, or a robust social safety net. Not both.
GTholla t1_jbb5l0u wrote
Oh no, won't someone think of the poor, poor shareholders!
drxdrg08 t1_jbbaqhe wrote
It was a non-profit hospital and existed since 1850's.
Lunamothknits t1_jbawx4j wrote
Doctors and other medical staff aren’t paid by patient, they’re salary. 🤦🏻♀️
If they can cover the cost to toss her out of the country. Why can’t they cover the cost to keep her? Y’all are just brainwashed.
ktappe t1_jbb4bhv wrote
Healthcare is a right everywhere else in the world except here. You're gonna stick to your claim that everyone else is wrong but us?
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