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I live in Australia and suffered an A.V. malformation in my brain that burst one day in 2021. I was flown to a major hospital in the city for emergency brain surgery. I woke up again 1 week later with a bunch of tubes coming out of me and no idea where I was or how I got there. After they took the tubes out of me a few weeks later I found out I had to learn to walk again. I was released for out-patient care 3 months later, the whole thing cost me exactly $0.
America really screwed over it's own people.
My next door neighbour and close family friend (when I used to live in the states) had a freak accident and required a heart transplant.
The cost of the transplant surgery and all related medical expenses would have put his family into astronomical medical debt for the foreseeable future. He opted to just die and donate the rest of his organs instead of putting his entire family in debt forever.
He left behind a wife, a daughter, and a special needs grandchild who him and his wife were raising because their daughter had some drug problems.
The debt would go with the person. A kid is not responsible for a parent's medical bill.
(At least that's my understanding)
They will still try to collect and hope you fall for it.
Yes, the good Ole corporate greed and ignorant humans not knowing thier rights.