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Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance
(www.theguardian.com)
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That story is pretty horrific.
Yeah, and it's still ongoing. She can leave and get hit with an as-yet-unknown fee/bill, or she can stay and not have her own needs addressed but be pressured into carrying on underwriting her own clinical trial eligibility tests.
She's terrified of setting foot in there now because when she started to argue she'd never had [whatever] and didn't need these tests they got really aggressive. Not physical, just verbally hard hitting, like abruptly changing the subject and then coming back around to it two minutes later to insist she needs this, and doing that over and over again, ignoring or twisting anything she tried to say in reply, and this was at the end of a day long fast for blood tests. There's more, just petty shit like you'd expect from a high-pressure con, but that's the kind of thing.
Fortunately the tests she was objecting to were not common, and she has an in-law who is retired from medicine, so when she asked him what was going on and named the tests they wanted he was able to cotton on pretty quickly and at least tell her it had nothing to do with her or her own needs.
But the only red flag up front was that they have ZERO local reviews. None. They have pay-to-play awards like "best in town" in a local newspaper, and NOTHING else anywhere. That was odd. Now we know why.
I don't see how this ends well. She'll either pay some fat bill or end up in court, none of which has anything to do with the healthcare she signed up for. I wrote all this so that maybe someone thinking about DPC will think twice before they sign up.
Thank you for sharing this story. Things can only change is the abuses are shared with many people.
I am sorry she is going through this.
Thank you. I don't mind saying it's scary as hell.
That really sounds like some dystopian science fiction novel. But I guess that's true for a lot of things going on in the US right now.
Funny you should say that. When she first told me what was going on, my mind immediately went back to that Robin Cook novel Coma from the 70s, lol.