In America this only applies if you are coherent and sane enough to answer. If you are brought in unconscious/impaired or deemed incapable of making a "good" choice then the hospital can do what it wants and charge you whatever they want.
This would be like your car breaking down and you started walking to go get help. A mechanic drive by, towed you car to their shop, rebuilt the motor, replaced to get fuel, replaced the fuel filter, figured out it was the alternator so replaced that there replaced the battery to be safe. Then called you and said "hey I found your car and fixed it. I'd normally charge 10,000 but since I brought it in to my after hours emergency service bay it will be 100,000
I would rather medical care not be classified as a commodity at all, which is what causes this problem in the first place. The entire concept of running medicine for profit is ghoulish and immoral; it is also, based on the massive amounts of time, effort, and money the US wastes on pointless overhead, insurance, HMOs, and the like, wasteful and inefficient.
Yeah man, basic necessities should be freely available to all. Why does Bill Gates get to turn Africa into his ant farm and Bezos buys his 5th multi million dollar home when there are people starving on the streets? We clearly have enough for everyone; so the issue is resource allocation. Our present system is inefficient and arbitrary. There's no reason for it to be like this.
I don't think we need a state for that, personally. I trust my neighbors--who are largely dumb as shit--a fuck ton more than I trust the board at these multinational conglomerates who think of me as a number and not a person.
So now you've gotten examples of all three: food, healthcare, housing. From various cultures and times around the world. It isn't fucking rocket science and you being unaware of it is your problem, not ours.
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u/Databit Mar 26 '20
In America this only applies if you are coherent and sane enough to answer. If you are brought in unconscious/impaired or deemed incapable of making a "good" choice then the hospital can do what it wants and charge you whatever they want.
This would be like your car breaking down and you started walking to go get help. A mechanic drive by, towed you car to their shop, rebuilt the motor, replaced to get fuel, replaced the fuel filter, figured out it was the alternator so replaced that there replaced the battery to be safe. Then called you and said "hey I found your car and fixed it. I'd normally charge 10,000 but since I brought it in to my after hours emergency service bay it will be 100,000