I remember reading a news story from the states once about a construction worker that got into an accident that took three of his fingers. When he was in hospital they talked about his treatment and discussed with him how much each finger would cost to reattach. In the end he was only able to afford two out of three fingers.

And if you think these stories are made up or untrue, most Americans are so normalized to all this that it would shock anyone else in the world. There are so many stories like this in the US .....

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/18-stories-health-insurance-claims-being-denied

Your continued ecistenxe is a burden! Fucking die! Work or die, meat!

-America

It's crazy to me that needing a heart transplant doesn't make you eligible to enroll in Medicare but needing a kidney does.

The debt would go with the person. A kid is not responsible for a parent's medical bill.

(At least that's my understanding)

I went to a Dr for the first time in 3 years to have my shoulder looked at. Spent about an hour at the place, and saw the Dr for maybe 5 minutes. I ended up getting prescribed maximum daily dose of acetaminophen, and some steroids (cheap garden variety). All in it cost me 167 dollars, which was within my deductible, so after a month, I finally got a bill for the full amount. The 200 bucks a month for my insurance and it didn't cover shit (my employer pays most of it, but my contribution is still like 240 dollars a year).

Health insurance in the US is a racket.

One of the terrible things is that they will bill you much more if you don't have insurance, or if you have insurance but they are not in your insurance "network" (which is basically your insurer acting like a union to negotiate prices down for it's members).

Technically, if you ignore everything it does go away.