Posted on 02/10/2020 10:21:51 AM PST by C19fan
My son has terminal brain cancer and is on an experimental drug that costs one thousand dollars per day. He used to be on Imbruvica which was only about twelve thousand a month.
It’s nuts.
Most of the time you can both negotiate a lower fee and a very flexible payment schedule. My uncle refused to buy health insurance, suffered a heart attack at age 58. Bill was over $200,000...he got the bill down to around $100,000 and worked out an interest free payment schedule of a 200 a month and the hospital was happy. I don’t buy these BS stories.
Si Senor!
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Absolutely!! The bail money is not returned to the debtor, it is used to pay Hassenplug and the medical facility. Shakespeare was right.
I don't know what the answer is, but I know this isn't right.
I'm with the ACLU on this one, blind pig, acorn, etc.
And presstitutes count on most consumers not reading much beyond the headlines.
The article said the lawyers are requiring them to appear every 3 months and prove their income. Requiring someone to go to Court 4 times a year is ridiculous.
Absolutely misleading headline...
He went to jail for failure to appear before the court....
Doesn’t matter what the case is about, this is a real possibility for any case against you.
That IS nuts! Prayers for your son that the treatment works. I feel awful for him and you. I experienced that horrible disease with my father who had a glioblastoma.
“neither party seems willing to do is allow across state line medical insurance”
Do you expect a New York State Blue Cross to get better Florida hospital pricing than Florida Blue Cross?
If you want Utah rate health insurance move to Utah.
Unless your name is Hunter Biden.
He missed 2 appearances to plead poverty.
Hospitas have generous income based charity care.
They'll set up a payment plan based on your income even if it's $1 a month.
Why aren't the kids on CHIPS?
It’s not a debtors prison but for consumer debts like this it’s an academic distinction. Usually the people going to jail for contempt are rich people hiding assets who refuse to tell creditors where their assets are or pay debts.
“Most of the time you can both negotiate a lower fee and a very flexible payment schedule. My uncle refused to buy health insurance, suffered a heart attack at age 58. Bill was over $200,000...he got the bill down to around $100,000 and worked out an interest free payment schedule of a 200 a month and the hospital was happy. I don’t buy these BS stories.”
One of our younger relatives is an exec with a major company. They had great insurance until Obama/Pelosi/Roberts passed their $crew working Americans and raised their deductibles to basically impossible levels.
He, his wife and his college kids are in basically good health, and they go to walkin clinics for most if not all of their health care costs.
He or his wife pay cash for what is done in the office at significant reduced charges for cash. They negotiate with the clinics on the prices and the pharmacies and even labwork. One of their daughters is junior in a college back east. The college requires vaccinations and lab work every year. The costs from that college’s clinic and lab are several hundred $’s per year. Their daughter is on a danceteam and the EKG test back there was about $300. The local clinic did the whole package for $125/Cash. They saved close to $500 by negotiating and paying cash.
Their mother negotiated a package deal with a local clinic and a nation wide clinical lab for less than $150.
In spite of having a fairly good retirement rx program, I negotiated a deal with a couple of chain pharmacies got excellent deals on 2 high priced RX drugs. My wife did the same with her arthritis meds and a cardiac drug.
Eh, really? Doesn't it depend on the type of debt? And if someone had declared bankruptcy, wouldn't that process be superior to a state OEX?
More specifically, the states need to put a stop to unconstitutional 16th Amendment taxes, taxes that corrupt Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, such powers not including taxing and spending for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
"Obviously, direct control of medical practice [emphases added] in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.” —Linder v. United States, 1925.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Citizens need to elect new patriot state and federal lawmakers that will promise to support PDJT in stopping the feds from stealing state revenues and citizen’s wallets with unconstitutional federal taxes. Citizens would then probably find the extra money to pay their healthcare expenses imo.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, […]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
One of the problems I have with these type of stories is the lack of details about what is actually going on.
Please accept my sincere sympathy ... I wish I had something more helpful to say at this terrible time for your family. Take care.
Anyone who thinks these tactics are ok... is a sociopath/psychopath.
They nailed me for my son's MRI.
Bingo. You got it.
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