Please excuse my ignorance. But if you have an life/death emergency, and you dont have insurance upfront, what happens. Do you get stung with a huge bill?
(go easy on me, I am from the UK where the health service is paid automatically through NI contributions)
2007-01-24 05:20:21 · 2 answers · asked by Chimera's Song 6 in Health ➔ Other - Health
If its life threatening, they will save your life and send you a bill. Sometimes community hospitals will have some type of program for underprivaledged patients, other times the city or state will split the bill with their programs. Usually they'll send a bill over and over, collect if you have assets, or sometimes just drop it (Yale hospital did this a few months back and dropped all their outstanding bills over a couple years old but thats the only time I ever heard of it).
2007-01-24 05:27:47 · answer #1 · answered by n_m_young 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Canadian, so we have health services if you can wait 3-1 hours in the emergency room! Cuba also has health care as a right.
In the US of A, apparently, they won't take you unless you present a credit card at the door! Some Canadians have lost their house due to a medical emergency while in the US.
2007-01-24 13:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by poutine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋