Quote Originally Posted by rightwinger
Unfortunately they do end up in our very expensive hospital emergency rooms for "free" medical care. One hospital in Texas spent over 200K last year for one single homeless man that kept coming into the emergency room for a variety of tests. BTW--they never could find anything wrong with him. Overall this one hospital billed Medicade for over 500K on a total of 18 continual frequent visitors.

Until that stops--and there are other places for these type of people to go--we are not going to be able to stop the sky-rocketing costs of health care.
That's nothing. We had a patient & their family who had insurance. The family didn't want to pull the plug. The patient had been dead for several weeks (brain). Staff could smell the stench of the rotting body. We have the tech to keep a body going for a long long time (too long in my opinion), but people have got to learn to deal with death. It's a part of life. That family racked up over 1.4 million in bills. I don't blame the insurance for not covering all of it as it's not their fault the family can't let go.

500k for 1 homeless guy in Texas. Shit happens all the time here in CO.