Like you’re presumably unconscious and at no point ever consent to be liable for the cost, and yet people get billed. It’s like if someone just came and did a bunch of work on your house when you were asleep and then sent you a bill.
Like, just wack. It’s like if you passed out in Walmart and an employee put a cell phone in your pocket, took your money, then gave you a receipt, and people were like “hmm yes that’s legit”
America must be destroyed
Here’s another one. An involuntary 72 hour psychiatric hold costs, on average, over $2,000 without insurance. And it can go a lot higher than that depending on where you go.
i don’t understand how anyone could not think about that and think “wow, that in and of itself must be incredibly psychologically traumatic” like jfc
America must be destroyed
Getting the bill is one thing. Getting it sent to collections and getting the harassing phone calls is another.
A couple days ago I told a debt collector from a hospital I was dead.
Amerikkkan psychiatric/psychological “healthcare” isn’t about helping people, it’s about punishing them for “acting out”
AND they drug you with shit that will give you horrid withdrawals knowing full well you probably can’t afford an Rx
$7,000 twenty years ago. And the night in the ER was another $7,000.