Why do people with medical bills think they should be able to get out of personal responsibility?

[dodya]

Looks like you actually needed to tell some of the people here that you were being sarcastic.

Hmmmmmm, I wonder if nationalized health care could help avoid situations like this? How often does this happen in Canada? France? The UK? . . . or any other industrialized nation besides the US?

Wow, you're question worked better than I would have ever imagined. Look at all of the republicans saying you're a jerk that has no soul!

Just for the record, if you're not joking, I hope you lose your job, struggle with bills while you look for work for 6 months and then raped and then are buried alive. Waah! My butt hurts and I can't breathe dirt! (What, a little over the top? I'm sure you're joking though, so good work.)

You miss the point. She's not trying to get out of paying it. She's broke and she can't pay it. Fact=You don't have a choice weather you get a disease or not. Fact=You don't have an ounce of compassion in your bones. Fact=That's typical conservative thinking. Fact=Doing the right thing never crossed your mind.. Fact=If you stopped living rent free in your parents basement and are under their insurance,if they have any at all. You would find out what the real world is like. Fact= Maybe you should die and decrease the surplus of assholes in the country. I doubt with your attitude you have any 'GOOD FRIENDS".

[aldric13]

That is because that it is just a new way to milk the system like Welfare.

[vanaken25]

To the extent that medical bills are inflated and/or fraudulent, there should most definitely be some considerations made. For-profit hospitals routinely pad their expenses and also pass costs down for non-emergency patients using the Emergency Room for minor treatment at the cost of millions each year. Without any regulations (GOP "less government" actual meaning), hospital administrators, health care professionals, and greed-driven CEOs of the 1300 for-profit insurance companies have made obscene personal profits at the expense of the American consumer, rising at least 3X the rate of inflation. The inflationary greed-driven overbillings within the health care industry means that as wages stayed stagnant during our bout with Republican totalitarianism (January 20, 2001 through January 20, 2007), medical billings skyrocketed far in excess of their true costs and way beyond any earnings a plummeting economy and price-gouging gas costs would support. Bankruptcy laws changed under Republicans, too, favoring (of course) profit-driven corporations' CEOs, making it much harder for consumers to seek protection yet allowing major corporations to merge (JP Morgan or Goldman-Sachs for example) in order to escape bankruptcies. I'm on the grieving family's side in this, having lost my daughter to medical malpractice and cult-evangelical tyrannies that abound on Cape Cod.