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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswho pays
for the surgeries and hospital charges accrued to the people that were injured in this crime? Do the hospitals write it off or do the bottom feeder collection agencies make them go bankrupt?
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who pays (Original Post)
onethatcares
Apr 2013
OP
The crime took place in Massachusetts. We have a working health care system. And we are
bluestate10
Apr 2013
#2
Are medical bankruptcies significantly less common in MA than in the US in general? n/t
Fumesucker
Apr 2013
#3
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)1. My guess is the latter.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)2. The crime took place in Massachusetts. We have a working health care system. And we are
civilized. The people that got injured by the bombers will be taken care of.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)3. Are medical bankruptcies significantly less common in MA than in the US in general? n/t
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)4. That's part of the point of public health care systems. (nt)
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)5. I agree..
So, are medical bankruptcies less common in MA than in the US in general?
Leslie Valley
(310 posts)7. I forgot. Your state has RomneyCare
N/T
SwampyJ
(9 posts)6. One Fund Boston
I have read somewhere that One Fund Boston was set up to help the victims. I am trying to find the link.