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I don't expect the government to pay ****. Like Jerry, I expect the hospital to send me a bill. Which they have always done.
But no hospital can know if you have insurance or not, or what your ability to pay is while you're laying bleeding to death, unconscious on a gurney. Thus, life saving emergency care isn't really in the equation.
However, I do fully support any doctor and hospital's right to deny services to anyone for any reason.
And a hospital can ask to see your insurance card. And a hospital can ask for payment at the time of service, or a deposit prior to treatment. And if you have no insurance, cannot pay at the time of service, or even place a deposit, then the hospital should have the right to refuse to serve you. Government assistance in these cases should not be an option. If the hospital chooses to treat you without an expectation of payment, that's their business. Of course if they go bankrupt for doing this, there should be no government bailout, either.