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Old Apr 19, 2020, 1:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Vangrovsky
but the hospital has already advised him that they would not treat him because of the bankruptcy he filed last year. (which was due to $37,000 medical debt that he incurred at this same hospital) They said the exception would be if he made prior financial arrangement or had "full blow coronavirus and the ambulance brings him in on stretchers"(since the US has laws making ER treatment mandatory. the hospital is a private health system with a dozen large hospitals... and they have a virtual monopoly in that area.(meaning all 12 hospitals are linked and can see his financial records)

It can't be much worse for him at any random hospital in the UK if he makes it back, right? they'll at least start to treat him and then make him figure out a way to pay later, right?
I'm refering to an NHS UK hospital not a US one.

But I retiterete if he is ill then he shouldn't be flying at all and putting other people at risk.
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