Originally Posted by
alanR
Why do you think she wouldn't?
Here are two possible reasons:
1. Lots of foreign tourists ignore bills from hospitals here because they know it's next to impossible for the hospitals to collect from them.
2. Ms. Bray is angry against the City of New York because of actions by one unit of its government, the Administration for Children's Services and her bill is from another unit of the same government, the Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Originally Posted by
moeve
By the way she was a foreign patient so she HAD to pay up front!!!!
Absolutely, completely untrue!
Did you read this statement in the British press? If so, let me call it the
lie that it is. Under the provisions of New York State law, a hospital cannot demand payment in advance for emergency treatment from anyone. Read this again.
Originally Posted by
Kagehitokiri
as soon as they said something about foster care, i would have been out of the hospital.
either go to medical place that will accommodate the kids(im sure there are plenty) or get the kids back to the hotel and arrange for someone to check in on them if its necessary.
What is a "medical place that will accomodate the kids?" I know of no hospital in New York City that has overnight child care facillities. Please, tell us all what you have in mind.
Originally Posted by
chornedsnorkack
Not just questions, however. The treatment of those girls was unreasonable searches and seizures.
Says who? First of all, ACS denies they were ever strip searched and second, even assuming for argument sake that they were, not every strip search violates the Fourth Amendment.
Originally Posted by
etch5895
I think both the thread title and the news story are sensationalized.
Agreed completely and I ask the moderators to change it.
Originally Posted by
alanR
So undergoing a brutalising procedure is normal for children who have been abused.
What brutalising procedure? The one that didn't happen? You know, the one in the hospital not located in Harlem.
Originally Posted by
alanR
Most people - apart from Americans for some reason - take out travel insurance especially if they are visiting America where charges can be rather high.
Says who, again?
Please fill out your FT profile so we know where you are.
The reason I and many other Americans do not take out travel medical insurance is that our
existing health insurance already covers us abroad. When I was treated in the emergency room of a French hospital a couple of years ago, my insurance paid the bill.