Because his parents were not low life and they worked hard for their money, my nephew could not get the free Medicaid giveaway and his family had to sell their home and move into a trailer for many years to pay off this bill!
Of course, poor folks only get the best of care, and we even pay for willful misconduct:
Do gluttons and addicts deserve health care?
Willful Misconduct should not be a disability!
Evidently, nothing has changed as this article notes parents whose newborn was denied medical coverage for in utero pre existing conditions!
I have mixed feeling on this issue. On one hand, taxpayers should not have to pay for a heart transplant for a 40 years morbidly obese smoker who mooches off of disability because he ate himself into a wheelchair.
In countries with socialized medicine like the UK they let alcoholics die if a transplant is not a good value for the money (e.g. a history of relapse).
British alcoholic dies rather than get free liver transplant
It's cold, but these are the practical medical decisions that doctorss truggle with everyday, determining who is "worthy" of expensive medical procedures . . .
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