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Originally posted by Surgicalcric
In the private sector if the bill is not satisfied by the patient after several billing cycles they are generally turned over to collections.
Anyone owing money to either the county hospital system or EMS after several billing cycles here in SC will find their tax refunds, if there is one, garnished for the due amount(s) by the state revenue service.
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James-
I am sure you are aware of this. Not trying to start an argument but I want to make sure people who have not dealt with this situation are aware.
In the first case, I assure you that providers don't get paid the full amount or anything close to it. That also means that the people owed the money have to
pay to get their money collected.
In the second situation, obviously, that leaves out a substantial portion of the "free" healthcare abusers in the system. All of NDD's immigrant friends (errr...legal worker bees or whatever) will be exempt as they mostly fall in the lower wage contracted labor catagory. Lower income contractees usually don't have state and federal taxes withheld out of their checks during the year therefore avoiding this well intentioned law. Obviously, very low income and unemployed citizens are exempt too. That still leaves my favorite group of beggars/cheaters... the scumbags that put down a very large number of exemptions to avoid having taxes withheld from their checks- usually to avoid having delinquent child support taken out of it by the gov.
Met someone in a prison(that's for another thread!
) that bragged about that last scam to me... he was "proud" of himself for getting out of his responsibility for his child and beating the system.
Overall, that law is a good idea. It is just a start though.