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To: combjelly who wrote (515969)	9/24/2009 12:15:39 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577868

>> Right. And the hospital just ignores it... There is a fundamental difference between privately funded hospitals and county hospitals in this regard. If you don't have any money or insurance you don't go to a privately funded hospital. It is that simple. In the county I live in there are no county hospitals but two privately funded ones -- one of which is a quite large Sisters of Mercy hospital. If you have insurance or money, Sisters of Mercy is going to collect it and they don't screw around. But they don't just patch up the indigent and send them on. I've never heard of them doing that here. (I did hear of them sending a snakebite case to the other hospital a few weeks ago because their ER was covered up with heart attacks at the time -- but that fellow had extensive insurance coverage, he wasn't indigent). This is not to say that it doesn't happen but the risks to any hospital of making a mistake in this respect are huge, so if we're talking about major life-threatening injury, I think it is relatively rare.