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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
and again....the keys here are 'can' and state to state....
Matter of fact let me ask....
Kevin: Where you are, do citizen get charged for the ambulance should they require one?
People in DC and Baltimore City can be charged anywhere from $75 to $150 dollars "service and dischage fee" should you ever require one and bill it to you directly (before they send it to insurance....heh)
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Lulz...that's a damn cheap ambulance ride. At my company, your insurance is getting billed around $800-1000. So when you hear me complain about medicare and medicaid abuse it's because of these people who are too damn lazy to take a car to their doctors appointments or the emergency room and just call us. We've had patients (regulars) who had to wait for a ride on one of our busy days and when they got tired of waiting their family came and got them. That kind of shit makes me so angry.
Also Alphafrog is correct-public, state-funded hospitals cannot refuse treatment. Private hospitals can. Here's a nice story for you: guy goes to a Fallon clinic (don't know if you know Fallon at all, but their clinics are infamous in my business, we go there a lot). He has chest pain, all the classic signs of an MI (heart attack). He doesn't have insurance. Nurse tells him there's nothing they can do because he's uninsured. Guy goes home, dead the next day.