Private health insurers can legally avoid ambulance bills because corpses are not considered patients, a loophole that left a grieving widow shocked.

I did not know this. The ambulance situation is a shambles and wildly differs from state to state and in what your health insurance provider (if you have one) may not make you aware of. The article includes a comparison of all states’ ambulance services.

  • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Couldn’t she just tell the ambulance company to get their money from their corpse?

    Die in debt, folks. Just make sure your family remembers not to accept that debt.