Quote:
Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
^^^@ kevin...how can your state justify completely disregarding claims by people who have no insurance? if the hospital is wrong, they are wrong!
|
The argument is that if you are forcing a hospital to provide care to folks who won't pay and then double hitting the hospitals (who are already overworked) and the docs who are working for less every time there's a negligence claim, you're going to dry up the number of emergency care facilities open to treat anyone at all.
I don't necessarily agree with all of that. I do think I agree with one provision recently offered which would grant a doctor immunity from negligence claims when he's volunteering his time in an E.R.
Quote:
|
my friends uninsured grandfather was DROPPED by two nurses moving him from the emergency room's wheelchair to the bed. he broke both hips, and when they did surgery to repair that, he got a bacterial infection and died. umm, im no expert, but would someone like to tell me where his family isnt due some sort of compensation? oh, and did i mention he was just going in because of a migraine? what are uninsured people supposed to do, stay home and die?
|
Did he get any compensation? It's almost a close case.
But look at the dollars and cents of the situation... The hospital costs a lot of money to run. They're treating your uninsured grandfather at great expense. The hospital operates to make a profit. Would you encourage the hospital to close its emergency room in order to avoid taking these sorts of patients? Surely this would be more profitable.
Hybrid Mode
