Melkath

But you know where the people in this thread suggesting that poor people MUST abuse Emergency Rooms to steam medicine and services? America.

I agree, its a broken system. It should be universal single payer. It's not though.

Medical debt sucks. You know what sucks more? Exhausted overworked doctors and nurses constantly being stolen because some people fancy themselves above the system.

Why are prices so out of control? Why does one trip to the hospital, with insurance or not, bankrupt someone? Because shit sucking leeches are perpetuating this complete lie that the only way to find medical care if you are poor is to rip off an Emergency Room.

There SHOULD be universal Healthcare, but there isn't.

The answer is finding a private practice that will see you for cash, not theft, which is a crime.

You are not entitled to free healthcare.

Theft is a crime.

You are admitting to being an entitled theif.

Your first paragraph is patently false.

The rest is "I'm a criminal. Let me steal medical services."

Hospitals 100% expect to be paid too.

You can almost assuredly find a private practice doctor that will see you for a cash transaction, but you do need to pay for Healthcare services in America.

You shouldn't put the lives of people experiencing true emergencies at risk because you want to commit a crime and dine and dash on an emergency doctor so he can look at your sniffles.

Medical debt is dischargeable by bankruptcy, but you can only get 1 of those every 8 years.

You can't walk up to an HMO building without being enrolled in that HMO, but you can 100% find non-hmo practices and pay cash.

If you are saying you want to commit a crime and steal the services, then fuck you. And double fuck you for putting people's lives at risk clogging up an actual ER because you want to dine and dash an emergency doctor to look at your sniffles.

Um... a regular doctor?

Will still be cheaper than an ER...

Insurance doesnt give you access to the doctor. It reduces the cost for the going to the doctor...

Edit: ITT a bunch of uneducated and misinformed people argue with and downvote me for describing the current American Healthcare System because they dont like the current American Healthcare System, so they feel entitled to just go "nuh uh, I'm poor, the rules don't apply to me. Imma just steal the most expensive healthcare."