Let's play the Health Insurance Quiz game

[CTLawGuy]

Poll question: Let's play the Health Insurance Quiz game

The first and only question for all the marbles:

What happens when you go to the hospital for treatment and you don't have insurance?

A. You get free health care and the hospital sends the bill to the US government to be paid by the taxpayer... you freeloader, you've found your way around the system!

B. You get treated, but then the hospital sends you the bill. If you don't/can't pay the bill, the hospital sends bill collectors after you. If you can't pay it off that way, you declare bankruptcy and ruin your credit. Then in bankruptcy, whatever assets you can't protect get taken to pay for your "free" health care, and then good-bye future car/home/education loan.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. A great system

for keeping the poor poor.

[CTyankee]

2. B is the answer for most, but not all people.

My brother gave up working in his early 50s and moved in with our parents. He was drinking heavily but could stay sober enough to help out around the house. However, in his mid 60s he had a stroke and then another and by then had nothing but Social Security. The hospital bills could not be collected on. He went into a nursing home on a Medicaid waiver. A third stroke 2 years later killed him.

The sad wreckage of his life impacted the health care system for all of his acute care and nursing home care. He surrendered all of his Social Security checks but was allowed about $40 a month for his noncovered expenses, e.g. cigarettes, which a nursing home attendant bought for him.

I was quite angry with him at one point because he had always voted Republican. Of course, as his decline progressed I let go of that anger and did what I could for him.

He was a very intelligent college graduate, a CPA. He just gave up at some point...

[CTLawGuy]

3. kick

come on Hillary supporters! Put those freeloading bastards in their place!