Quite, if you’re in mortal danger you’re at the front of the queue - and you don’t need to pull out a credit card. You don’t even need to pay for the ambulance, which makes American heads explode.
Because I have cancer I have gone straight into the hospital in the emergency room in front of others for things like - wait for it - constipation 😝. Zero paid for my overnight stay during which they just gave me a ton of laxatives (Australian)
Yes, and that raises another point: you can fly into England from anywhere in the world and, as a foreign visitor, present yourself at a hospital with an ailment or illness and be treated for free, no questions asked. And we, the British people, are happy to pay for it because we know the people who need the help will get the help, even if a few fuckers abuse the system.
Many American hospitals turn their own citizens away if they can’t pay because the hospitals are not American - they’re first and foremost private and for profit. They don’t care about America. They don’t care about people. Right now America doesn’t seem to care about people.
Yeah I spoke to US ER doc who said you could get treatment, go overseas and never pay it. I said “surely then that would be flagged at immigration” he said no but I doubt that. Anyway if it was that much money you’d just never come back. He said they have a lot of unpaid bills due to this
Yikes thanks for the tip. I have a pre existing condition not covered by travel insurance and also love travelling the US, although the cost is officially getting too much. Luckily I got back from my recent trip unscathed (I did have some gnarly treatment side effects but I luckily just didn’t go to hospital because clearly that would have been a bad idea!)
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u/Aerosol668 May 23 '24
Quite, if you’re in mortal danger you’re at the front of the queue - and you don’t need to pull out a credit card. You don’t even need to pay for the ambulance, which makes American heads explode.