Clearly these costs would be lower if everyone could buy insurance anywhere with their fantastic tax credit. That's the real problem. Or is it because the lawyers are all at fault? No, it's Bill Clinton's fault. No, it's because lefties are disrespecting Old Glory. D'oh. Best health care in the world...south of Canada and still in North America. Perhaps.
A woman says she waited 19 hours at Parkland Memorial Hospital’s emergency department for treatment of a broken leg and never did get to see a doctor — but still got a bill for $162.Yes, that's some service. Stories such as this always remind me of the two (yes, two) times my father was dying and was rushed to the hospital on a 911 call. The bastards at the ER stopped him from being wheeled in so they could take time to leisurely confirm his health insurance. What compassion. Why do hospitals even exist when they treat people so poorly?
Amber Joy Milbrodt, who said she broke a bone in her leg while playing volleyball, received the bill two weeks after her Sept. 24 visit.
Parkland officials say the bill was appropriate because a nurse spent time checking her vital signs to assess her level of need.
But that’s not how Milbrodt sees it. “It should have been more like them paying me for having to sit in the emergency room for 19 hours,” she told The Dallas Morning News.
The assessment by the nurse, which lasted a few minutes, established her place in line that night. By that time, Milbrodt said, she had already been waiting about 3½ hours.
She still had not been called more than 15 hours later, so she gave up and went home. She had an X-ray taken at a chiropractic school where she is a student, and that had already confirmed that she had a fracture.
“She’s not paying for waiting,” says Rick Rhine, the hospital’s vice president in charge of billing. “She’s paying for the assessment she received.”
