The US Private Healthcare System fails again

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Originally Posted by Honu

First off my post was NOT directed at YOU!
I just put it out there to add to the thread and the absolute stupidity of the thread title. What country in the world will pick up a huge medical tab for a non-citizen? If the young lady didnt have adequate insurance for herself then she should have stayed in Canada or purchased some. Not everything that is posted is directed at YOU, jeesh.

Geesh, indeed.

You said: .... sue for healthcare?

I said: Not something I said. Try Dell. Sounds like something he'd say.

You then said: ... then I misread the title of the thread.

Yes. That made me think your comment, which you then did not address to Dell but back to me, was indeed directed to me. And again, you called the thread title "absolutely stupid". As I wrote the thread, yeah, I'd say you were talking to me (insert emoticon for little smiley face here)

No. I don't think "America" should pick up the tab for this woman. As I said my concerns were, athletes in those sports cannot get insurance from their private insurers in the US, and foreigners cannot get US privates to write travel insurance for those high-hazard sports - that is a problem I listed, a major fail for US insurance. Or maybe they could get insurance, but it's $50,000 a year or something (what do jocks pay, I wonder?) I also don't know what the deal is why an adults parents would be held responsible for her $300,000. Maybe, as I wondered, they signed something first day. And if so, did that affect the healthcare choice she would or would not have gotten? We know that some hospitals will simply not take self-insured patients, will transfer them elsewhere to a hospital that does. That -that the question needs to be wondered about in the face of a life-threatening emergency - is another major problem with US healthcare.