Quote:
Originally Posted by jlynn Dr. E is going to be without a job.  |
Enigma, that hospital simply likes to throw money away and if people actually read the report, they would see that it would not eliminate the medical collections industry. Your local hospital will just be farming out thier work from now on. Also the way this guy wrote this article, he should be writing headlines for the National Enquirer.
I'll save you folks the trouble: the report does not call for an outright banning of these practices, only those who are uninsured, underinsured and medically indigent. And since we want to encourage those who can to buy insurance, I assure you if this were to pass, all patients would have to submit detailed financial information in order to be exempt from collection.
My guess is that the fed's will leave this up to the states to handle. We already have this law in place in NY requiring charity care for those who fall into the income/asset limits of the Fed. poverty level. If these people are filtered out prior to collection, agencies will be more efficient and profitable as they won't have to waste time and resources on collecting from the uncollectable.
The only hiccup is it will require people to actually do paperwork, substantiate income, etc. Unfortunately a high percentage of the indigent seem too busy to do this.
I assure you all that this type of legislation would do is filter out a few of the indigents and in the immortal words of Celine Dion, the medical collection industry will go on.
Also I regret to inform you that this will be the last intelligent and insightful counterpoint that I will be providing on this board. As many of you may know, I was again (wrongly in my opinion), put in time out by Qtip. Those of you on this board should request an explanation of the infraction system before you are in it as the rules seem to change on a whim.
Rest assured, I will be reading your credit repair journeys ,and if the spirit moves me, I will PM those of you who are on the wrong track.
Peace out my little credit warriors.
Your friend drivel