2006-11-02 12:16:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
It's against the law. Hospitals can't turn anyone away, but they can transfer a patient to another hospital once they are stable.
2006-11-02 14:29:16 · answer #1 · answered by CJBig 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will assume that you assume that health insurance would be paying the bill and the lack of health insurance means you can not pay the bill.
It depends on where the hospital gets its funding, so there is no correct answer for all hospitals. Some can and some can not.
2006-11-02 16:32:39 · answer #2 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they should not and they can not. However they do give you less than adequit care if you do not have insurance. My late husband had gone to John's community hospital in Taylor, TX. We did not have inusrance. He went there complaining of chest pains, shortness of breath, and coughing. The doc said it was a collapsed lung and indegetion. Told him to go home and just relax. 4 days later he was dead of a massive pulmonary embolism which the doc did not even bother to check for even tho his symptoms pointed to it. If we had insurance he would have been given the proper tests that would have shown that he had massive blood clots and he could have been treated properly.
2006-11-02 12:56:18 · answer #3 · answered by miamac49616 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no longer very familiar with the cheap Care Act, are you? It strongly ENCOURAGES coverage by the corporate. It penalizes great employers who do no longer grant coverage. those intense dollar quotes are the only way insurers can grant rules on the exchanges at a loss. Your assertion isn't smart.
2016-11-27 00:28:50 · answer #4 · answered by eatough 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,they have the right to be treated there the same as someone who has insurance. There sould also be a program set up to help them pay their medical expenses.
2006-11-02 12:35:49 · answer #5 · answered by Alena F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a non profit organization hospital, the government gives them grants so they can not turn any one away.
2006-11-02 16:40:06 · answer #6 · answered by ckrug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. How ever if we let this person receive health care what is the motivation for others to pay it??? it would be a breakdown in the "system"
2006-11-02 12:19:21 · answer #7 · answered by Viakin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hospital cannot turn people away for lack of insurance. It's illegal.
2006-11-02 12:19:27 · answer #8 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but they are allowed to if it is not an emergency, otherwise you need to go to a walk in clinic, where is it cheaper to get medical care. also if you come by ambulance the ER will not normally turn you away.
2006-11-02 12:21:10 · answer #9 · answered by iMaTwin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you go to the emergency room, in most states, they cant turn you away for not having insurance - they have to treat everyone that enters the door
2006-11-02 12:19:32 · answer #10 · answered by comelycrush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋