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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (1929)8/31/2007 7:38:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
They can only garnish wages after a successful judgment against you. In other words they have to sue you first. In practice they are likely to settle for less than that $940, at least if you really are poor. If you reasonably wealthy (at least solidly middle class if not better) and you just decided not to get insurance, than maybe they push you for the $940 sometimes, but often people without insurance or even people with insurance that doesn't cover the procedure, get billed less than the full official rate.
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