I can't remember ever reading such an appalling account of the US health system.
Here's Scott Hawkins. Yeah, there's a photo to the name. But it's a damned shame the guy is dead. He was murdered by a room mate at Sacramento
State University.
His parent's have received a bill from the hospital for Scott's care ... to the remarkable tune of $29,186.50 ... even more astounding considering
Scott was DOA and only received 5 minutes attention in ER. The bill to his parents contained a letter saying Scott was considered "indigent" and
that he shouldn't return to the UC Davis Medical Centre for any further treatment (basically he hadn't paid his bill ... so he's getting denied
further treatment ... even though he's dead already).
I can't believe that in any country besides the U.S., any civilized country, that the parents of a murdered boy would receive this bill for
$29,000 and such an insulting letter," [Scott's Father]Gerald Hawkins said. Hawkins called the letter, delivered to their home just 12 hours after
their son's funeral, a harsh blow to the couple's healing process. "I would say this really torpedoed whatever gains we had made," Hawkins
said.
Come on, all you apologists for private healthcare, all the ones saying Obamacare is socialism run riot.
Try defending that one. Try defending the best part of $30G for five minutes treatment, let alone the way the poor guy's parents were treated.
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