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To: HiJinx
Guess who gets to pay thier medical bills?
38 posted on 10/29/2003 8:27:01 AM PST by SAMWolf (This is tomorrow's message.)
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To: SAMWolf
Their medical bills will either be charged to AHCCCS (Arizona Medicaid) or they will be 'cash-applied' at the ER desk. That means they will be required to pay cash for services rendered. The billing office gets a local address and sends them a bill. Of course, the address is bogus and the hospital ends up writing it off as bad debt. Well, I don't know for sure about Tucson, but that is the way it works here in Sierra Vista.

And that is one of the major reasons why there's a healthcare crisis in the U.S.
39 posted on 10/29/2003 8:32:02 AM PST by HiJinx (Pray for Gubamyster's son, James...)
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