Help Finding Old Answer: Hospital Bills

[wired]

Hey everyone,

I vaguely remember reading a question where one of the answers referred to a medical bill being forgiven. I tried to do a search. I've got nothing. Anyone want to point me in the right direction?

Thanks!
wired, who thought he would have made a good writer until he couldn't find this specific answer

[vorpal blade]

Could it be, wired, that you were looking in the wrong place, i.e. not on the 100 Hour Board itself? In a discussion about health care reform in this forum http://theboardmb.informe.com/viewtopic.php?t=1136 Cuddlefish wrote:

Dr. House is perhaps not the best example of what a doctor should or should not do.

Vorpal Blade-

If you don't have health insurance and you have an emergency procedure, it's possible that you can get some or all of your debt forgiven. My husband had an emergency appendectomy last year and didn't have health insurance to cover it. The total bill for an ambulace ride, a fairly simple sugury, and less than a day in a hospital bed was over $22,000. After about a month of proving that he was, in fact, a poor college student with no real assets, the hospital just forgave the whole debt. The point is, you can still negotiate after your emergency if you don't have health insurance, and sometimes you can even get a better deal than an insurance company could have given to you.

I hope that is what you were looking for.

[wired]

That's exactly it - no wonder I couldn't find it in the archives.