Chris Rangel thinks so, and thinks they are starting to act like for-profit hospitals:
After being “rejected” by the charity hospital and still being sick they come to my ER. We admit and treat them and then the hospital sends them a big fat bill (due to CMS requirements private hospitals cannot offer to treat uninsured patients for less than they bill Medicare/Medicaid). Even when the patient requests to be transferred to the local charity hospital they can’t because I can’t get anyone to accept the transfer and the reason is always, “we have no beds.”
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Yep, it is happening where i work
State and local governments, like everyone else, have been corrupted by the socialism of Medicare and want someone else to foot the bill for their good works–in this case the federal taxpayor paying for their “compassion” in providing for the poor.
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