Posted on 08/25/2016 2:10:03 PM PDT by Zakeet
Two Orlando-area hospitals are waiving the medical bills of victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, praising the community response and saying they want to contribute.
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Orlando Regional Medical Center has treated 44 victims of the shooting - more than any other hospital. The center's parent company, Orlando Health, says it will not charge victims for their treatment, reports Abe Aboraya of member station WMFE.
"Instead, the hospital will look at federal and state funds, victims' funds like the One Orlando fund, and private funds raised for victims," Aboraya reports for our Newscast unit. "The hospital will bill insurance if a patient has it, but it will not go after a patient's copays.
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Yep. My first thought was most of the victims probably don’t have health insurance or the money to pay the bills.
You're surprised?????? That's the way it's always been bro.............
Using your own twisted logic, do you think the hospitals who received the victims of 9/11 should not have absorbed the cost of their survival treatments and instead should have billed the families for the costs incurred???
From the sound of it they will bill insurance and Medicare/Medicaid first and not bill the victims for their co-pays. It’s a tad misleading
“Preferred victims”...illegals are the last free people on earth - they get this free treatment EVERY DAY.
Um the victims here didn't have to pay their hospital bills. What the he** are you talking about?
There IS NO such thing as a free lunch, period.
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