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kairos12

(12,851 posts) Mon Jul 10, 2017, 04:04 PM Jul 2017

One of my biggest health care fears.

Pass out somewhere. Good Samaritans call an ambulance. You wake up after 4 days later in a ward alive, but hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

Hospital as debtor's prison.

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One of my biggest health care fears. (Original Post) kairos12 Jul 2017 OP

That's where the repubs want to take us SHRED Jul 2017 #1

Me too! KT2000 Jul 2017 #2

i know a guy onethatcares Jul 2017 #3

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

1. That's where the repubs want to take us

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 10, 2017, 04:09 PM

Jul 2017

Back to the "good old days".

KT2000

(20,572 posts)

2. Me too!

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 10, 2017, 04:53 PM

Jul 2017

our hospital goes after your house!

onethatcares

(16,165 posts)

3. i know a guy

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Jul 10, 2017, 05:28 PM

Jul 2017

tht actually fell off a bar stool and 6 weeks later came out of the medically induced coma they put him in due to brain swelling.

He has no way of paying off the debt he incurred and doesn't care.

He voted for drump

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