Posted on 02/10/2020 10:21:51 AM PST by C19fan
There is at least one issue a divided electorate can come together on this election year: A recent poll finds 90% of those surveyed agreed on the importance of making health care more affordable.
Millions of Americans remain uninsured.
As Meg Oliver reports in partnership with ProPublica, some people are even going to jail because they're squeezed by a system that's putting new demands on overburdened incomes.
Tres and Heather Biggs' son Lane was diagnosed with leukemia when he was five years old. At the same time, Heather suffered seizures from Lyme disease.
"We had so many — multiple health issues in our family at the same time, it put us in a bracket that made insurance unattainable," Heather Biggs said. "It would have made no sense. We would have had to have not eaten, not had a home."
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This is insanity. I see no difference between an unfeeling government bureaucrat and an unfeeling private sector bureaucrat. I don’t want government run healthcare either.
Something that could be done but which neither party seems willing to do is allow across state line medical insurance. The fact that that isn’t allowed shows that Congress is completely in the pocket of insurance companies.
Unless you're HumpHer Biden.
It's GOOD to be American royalty...
Nope! You should read your own posted art7cle!
Well, debtors examinations (or as my state calls them "proceedings supplemental") have been a standard part of our legal system for well over 100 years.
Well if so- then that explains it- the person in the story was jailed for that- but are all people who get thrown into jail because they failed to show up? I suspect some aren’t- and are jailed for not paying- divorced people who don’t pay their spouse are jailed- but who knows-
[[Bail is set at $500.”]]
Bail, wat’s that? No such thing as bail
Having actually looked into the question once, I think you’d turn out to be wrong.
I was once asked to support what seemed to be an obvious, irrefutable statement someone once made that we have never allowed debtors prisons in the US. If I remember correctly, I found a case where someone had made that argument.
The court in that case shot the argument down. It illustrated the point by referring to a number of cases in the US where persons were thrown into prison due to debt, including one where a sitting judge went to a debtor’s prison.
Scratch one slam-dunk argument.
“County in rural Kansas is jailing people over unpaid medical debt”
A blatant and outrageous lie.
And Freepers falling for it left and right.
“Maybe there’s more to the story,”
Maybe no need if you read the article.
That law was put in place at Hassenplug’s own recommendation to the local judge. The attorney uses that law by asking the court to direct people with unpaid medical bills to appear in court every three months and state they are too poor to pay in what is called a “debtors exam.”
If two hearings are missed, the judge issues an arrest warrant for contempt of court. Bail is set at $500.
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In all the doctor’s offices I’ve worked in, they would always accept small monthly payments. Hospitals will put you on a payment plan.
Yep, renounce your citizenship and become an illegal alien.
Denounce your US citizenship and live here as an illegal alien and you’ll get FREE medical care along with all kinds of other FREE stuff.
Rename yourself as Juan or Juanita Lopez born in Mexico.
Then, relocate to a sanctuary city and fill out the paper work for free lodging, medical care and other benefits.
In California they are called “orders of examination”. You can take the debtor’s watch off his wrist, empty his wallet, and drive home in his car while he goes home on the bus.
Hint - pro publica is a Soros funded ‘activist’ outfit.
This isn’t news. It is propaganda.
Make pro-bono medical care tax deductible for physicians and other providers and these problems will decline.
Also, get rid of the middlemen (the insurers). See the Surgery Center of Oklahoma.
If you read the story it is not that they are jailed for the unpaid bills but for skipping 2 court hearings about the bills. If they had followed the procedures and appeared as ordered they would not have been jailed. This is an example of sensationalizing headlines to present the networks (CBS) agenda.
I agree that we need to do something to reduce medical costs. (I just paid out $200.00 at C.V.S. Saturday and $80.00 in Co-Pays to be seen.) It affects everyone and I Do not have the answers. But this headline was misleading to say the least.
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No, that’s a total BS article.
The guy didn’t go to jail for not paying his medical bills.
He went to jail to ignoring a subpoena to appear in court regarding unpaid medical bills.
“Debt” that has been grossly overstated, no doubt
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