and the S.O.B.'s don't pay any property taxes or payroll taxes. This "non-profit" bull has got to go.

people when they're down.

Chpt. 7. The auto-stay stops the garnishment while the case plays out. If the medical debt is part of the discharge, continued garnishment or duns for payment are illegal. They're credit is wrecked, but the debt is gone.....that is until they or a family member gets sick or injured again. So, you are right, what a wonderful healthcare system we have. Set up to make the rich richer and to keep the rest of us poor and in line.

If they filed 11,000 suits I guarantee you most ignored the court summons or just gave in without fighting it. Make them prove the bill. Make the prove what they did and the charge was reasonable for what they did. They would have to drag doctors and administrators into court to testify on each suit. If people did that it would not be cost effective to file suit. Also the court system would come to a halt with that many active lawsuits by one plaintiff.

Ain't it grand!!!
It's American Exceptionalism, where human dignity is excepted.

<GASP!!!>

Socialism!

My son in law was diagnosed and treated for congestive heart failure and required a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted. Only 12% pumping efficiency left. He is on a host of medications, weekly Dr/cardiac clinic visits etc. Originally he applied for medicaid when he was hospitalized as naturally he lost his job as a truck driver.

He applied for and was approved for SSDI after release from the hospital. Now his problem is that his SSDI exceeds the medicaid means testing for 138% above federal poverty levels so he lost his medicaid. He cannot get medicare till he has been disabled for 2 years. He now has to scramble as his Dr, clinic and drug needs exceed his monthly SSDI so he is madly looking for a medical ACA plan to cover till he can get medicare without getting zapped by high cost, copay, deductible plans that won't leave him able to eat or pay rent/utilities.

A terrible circle of painful regs for the chronically or critically ill.

I just really don't understand how they can live with themselves.

"In exchange for these tax breaks, it is expected to provide a benefit to the community—most crucially by providing care to lower income patients who can't afford to pay."

So they provide some care to lower income patients -- and then squeeze them like a lemon for all they have and more. Meanwhile, this "nonprofit" pays its CEO $1.2 million/year.

But healthcare costs are going up less than they used to!!!!! So shut up and bow!!!! Will the man after whom our so-called system is named speak up???

I predict this won't get as many recs as the vanity thread from Friday

under a terrific contract as medical director to build a state of the art mental health care facility. Less than a year in, they unilaterally cancelled the contract. My husband had to go to Kansas City to hire an attorney to represent him in getting
them to compensate us with something for cancelling the contract because it was such a small town none of the attorneys in
St. Joe were willing to cross Heartland and represent him.

Then, about four years later my husband and a progressive small group of docs in town tried to organize
an HMO that would actually be patient--not profit--focused. Heartland responded by taking him off
the hospitals' approved doc list for employee's mental health care (he's a psychiatrist) which meant 2/3
of his practice (Heartland was the largest employer in town) could not have patient visits with him covered.
They effectively made it impossible for us to survive and we put our house--and the office he'd built--up
for sale in 1994 and moved 6 years after he'd been recruited there from Los Angeles and put a lot of money
into living there.

Heartland was run by a complete sleazeball CEO.