Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (13895)	8/21/2004 7:55:48 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

If Orca or any of his familial pod experiences a health care emergency, and requires significant medical care, the Orca pod will be billed for that care. If they don't pay, the health care provider(s) will turn the matter over to collection. If they continue not to pay, they will be sued. Ultimately, they stand to lose their house, business, and other things of value they have to pay the cost. If it came to losing his brand-new addition, I think he would file bankruptcy first, to save the house and what he can of the business and other assets. You don't know what other steps he might have taken to shield assets from creditors, and it might turn out that they get diddly and he skates. If that happened, the medical service providers might be stiffed in the short run to the extent that Orca's bills wouldn't be paid directly by him, but would make up the loss in the aggregate and the long run by increasing charges to the rest of us. Thus, we would become responsible for his bills, as we are for all the other would-be Orcas who go through that hypothetical scenario or a variation thereof.