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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Unless he can physically block that kid from the ER, his objection is ineffectual. It’s also ghoulish.
We’ll give that kid treatment, and we’ll try to send a bill and collect, and when we can’t we’ll write it off.
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There are hospitals that would transport the kid to a different facility.
Tax-exempt ERs are required to take the kid as part of their exemption; for profit-facilities are not, and you'll get different answers in different states.
As to who pays, are you saying it should always be the hospital writing it off - so a hospital in the burbs will have next to no write-offs where one in, say, the Mississippi Delta may be overwhelmed by them? Should it ever be a social cost?
