Comments on: NY Shelters Will Be Reimbursed For Helping Undocumented Victims of Intimate Partner Violence http://thecurvature.com/2008/10/22/ny-shelters-will-be-reimbursed-for-helping-undocumented-victims-of-intimate-partner-violence/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay http://thecurvature.com/2008/10/22/ny-shelters-will-be-reimbursed-for-helping-undocumented-victims-of-intimate-partner-violence/#comment-8004 Jay Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:33:02 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2022#comment-8004 It's this way in healthcare, too. Hospitals are not allowed to turn away people from ERs - and they shouldn't be. So we treat undocumented and uninsured patients, and we don't get paid. Not even the pittance we receive for Medicaid patients. The accounting is so complex I have no idea how much this adds to the bills for people who do have insurance, but it's not trivial. If we are judged by how we treat the most vulnerable in our society, we are coming up short. Really short. Sinfully, criminally short. It’s this way in healthcare, too. Hospitals are not allowed to turn away people from ERs – and they shouldn’t be. So we treat undocumented and uninsured patients, and we don’t get paid. Not even the pittance we receive for Medicaid patients. The accounting is so complex I have no idea how much this adds to the bills for people who do have insurance, but it’s not trivial.

If we are judged by how we treat the most vulnerable in our society, we are coming up short. Really short. Sinfully, criminally short.

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