I know. Keep sending them bills and keep track of the bottom line. Every few weeks publish the amount every month for the amounts owed to US hospitals.
I went in for a proceedure some years ago and they wanted me to pay up front because it wasn’t covered by insurance. The amount was significantly more than what we’d first been told and after talking to the business office we found out we were having to foot the bill from the previous patient who’d skipped out back to whatever country they were from.
Right below the Debt clock we need....a clock for Medicare expenses...a clock for illegal medicaid...a clock for children born to illegals....a clock for legal medicaid...a food stamp clock....a child support clock......etc.
We need a 50 story building for wake up clocks. When someone asks for govt support we can just point to a clock!
America is a very sick country in many ways. We’ll be chicken soup before long.
I had surgery years ago and had a balance not covered by insurance. I called to pay it and was asked if I wanted to ‘settle’. I was like, “Whhhaaaattt??” I was told that people who have insurance get padded bills to cover the costs for the uninsured and that if I paid it in full then I would get a biiiggg break. My bill was around $1300 and I ended up paying $600.
Then the next time I ended up in the ER from heat exhaustion and hypothermia (yes ‘hypo’, my temp dropped to 91) I had to wait FOUR hours behind the illegals. (Pretty easy to tell the illegals- no English, no money and lots of kids.)