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Originally posted by Spider879
So what's the system in Australia,do citizens or laborers pay into a system through tax?? and if so does it hurt your pocket book.
Originally posted by DarknStormy
Originally posted by Spider879
So what's the system in Australia,do citizens or laborers pay into a system through tax?? and if so does it hurt your pocket book.
Even going to the doctor costs you no more than $25 most times after you claim money back through medicare and sometimes doctors will bulk bill you which means paying nothing. I hear this happens a fair bit in the cities.
I couldn't tell you about whether there is a scheme or not but I know from experience through myself and family we have never had to pay a dime or insurance to get surgery. I'm sure the doctors have something good going with the government loledit on 3-3-2013 by DarknStormy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CaptainOblivious
LMAO! This dude is completely retarded AT BEST!
Perhaps the tool shed shoulda went down to his local Social Services and applied for Medicaid. He could not have been denied for ANY reason, it would have been retroactive...meaning he could have waltzed into an emergency room in any hospital, gotten his surgery, and they could not have denied him.
Why then, does this tool decide that jail would be a better alternative?? And then...you folks applaud his efforts?? Now...not only are the taxpayers on the hook for his surgery anyway, we now have to pay for 13 months of housing him in jail...about $36,000/year.
I hope this guy drops the soap in jail and the inmates turn him out....he deserves nothing less for choosing jail instead of Medicaid. What a martyr...pfft.
When he returned for his pre-op visit, though, he was told that since he'd been released from prison, he no longer had insurance to cover the operation. He asked what he should do. They told him to figure out how to get insurance.
Originally posted by DarknStormy
Maybe in the USA but if that guy was to come to Australia, he would have no problems getting the surgery he needs free of charge.
Originally posted by peter vlar
Not only did he have medicaid as an option, the guy wasn't getting a transplant, it was an emergency procedure. He could have showed up at any ER with aneurysms the size claimed in the article and wouldve been checked in imediately. You can not be denied life saving treatment at an ER, its against the law. This guy didn't engage in due diligence, he did the dumbest easiest thing he could have instead of dealing with paperwork. He could have had the surgery and applied for medicaid and it would cover 90 days retroactively froim the date of filing so I'm inclined to say that either the story is BS or this guy is a moron.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
Ron paul would have left him in the street to die.
We are our brothers keepers.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by DarknStormy
Maybe in the USA but if that guy was to come to Australia, he would have no problems getting the surgery he needs free of charge.
Like I said .. nothing is free. SOMEONE has to pay for it. He would have gotten his surgery, but the Australian tax payers would have paid for it.