Can someone please tell me of a medical facility that would deny health care to children in America?
I am serious. Is there a hospital or a doctor's office in America that would deny treatment to a needy child that was uninsured?
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There arent officially any, but you take a busload of sick minority children to the finest blueblooded hospital, out of all honesty, and suddenly there will be a "facilitation" problem.
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Yes. My nephew had a hernia, he was eight years old. The Doctor and the hospitals said to wait until it strangulates, and then it would be treated as an emergency. Once a hernia strangulates, you can die.
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An emergency room will treat the uninsured, but you will go home with a big bill, after you are out of an urgent care situation there is no hospital in the US that will treat anybody of any age, from 1 to 101 without getting paid.
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Yes: any privately owned Hospital can and any Doctor can. The ones who do not get money from the Government to run the Places they work and is privately own,will and do everyday.
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I doubt this, other than some differences of opinion over what is necessary, possibly. But no one will convince me that won't occur with universal health-care or that it doesn't occur now with Medicaid and Medicare. I've actually found the re-payment terms better with private hospitals than so-called public ones, incidentally. Additionally, the needy uninsured can apply for Medicaid at admissions.
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if they only have a cold... yes... MOST CERTAINLY... if they aren't in critical need there are many... take your kid to a local doctors office and say you don't have any money or insurance and the kid is ill, not deathly ill... see what happens...
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No private hospital must accept charity cases, there are many stories where ambulances pass one hospital to go to another. No doctor needs to either, he may at his discretion, but he is not mandated to treat everyone. And they bill, all medical facilities and doctors will bill the patient, in some cases more than they do the ones who are insured, because insurance companies work out their own deals with hospitals. There is a reason half of all bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical bills, and its not because Aunt Margaret is a hypochondriac. I had a friend who was between jobs and insurance coverage, he wouldn't go to an emergency room with what was probably just heartburn. He died. He was 53. You can't diagnose yourself.
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