Matt Novak: This fucking country. — Subium • Bluesky web client

This fucking country.

Filed next to the article I once read about a fire crew not putting out a house fire because the owners weren't up to date with payments. Oh, here it is:

No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burnwww.nbcnews.com Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.

Are you joking? This is exactly what Crassus did in Ancient Rome

Omg yes I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to think of Crassus

I remember when I first learned about his fire fighting system and thinking “glad we don’t have that here in the US”. Wow I was wrong

Fwiw, that was a big deal in the firefighting community when it happened, that's seen as dereliction of duty- but the reason stations charge is bc it's often that or close: bsky.app/profile/jnxo...

Reminder that the US does not pay or fund 60% of their fire service. It used to be 80% but that many of us have left.

Yeah, this is madness. Over here in the UK, fire is just paid for out of regular taxes, like healthcare. The stuff you really don't want to be thinking about paying for when you really really need it.

Play libertarian games, win libertarian prizes

Ffffffffffff

There’s nothing more American than a health care provider smugly explaining why they will not treat you.

This seems more like Texas specific nonsense

It’s part of a larger trend in every state that’s banned abortion post-Roe

Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroomwww.seattletimes.com Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning ...

i promise you there's assholes all over.

Lol bsky.app/profile/jnxo...

For anyone tempted to "red states are evil" this, fwiw a similar thing happened to me in NYS in 2012.

yup, something like 1 in 6 hospital beds in the US are in catholic-run facilities.

This did not happen to me in a Catholic run facility.

i should be more surprised by that, but I've heard enough stories to know ERs in general are pretty shitty when it comes to handling anything involving women's reproductive health.

The whole experience didn't involve just the ER, either.

Ruin them with an EMTALA violation.

The primary consequence seems to be withhold/refusing Medicaid (etc) reimbursement. I’m all in favor of consequences for the “ER”, but wonder whether that particular one would hurt vulnerable patients more than it would the company.

Did you miss the 123,000$ fine?

I did miss it! (source?) I was referring to EMTALA in general, not to this specific case. Good to know that there are indeed fines for this sort of thing. (And like all government fines against non-complaint companies, one wishes they were sometimes higher)

Source is me. I work at a state transfer center and have to file emtala violations.

It's pretty easy to find. I think hospital fines are based on # of beds. This place is probably small enough to only get hot foot 60k$, but you could also hit the individual MDs for 120k ish.

I would still — as you stated up front — love to see ruinous civil damages against the facility awarded to the harmed patient.

Christians!

it's cool that we've expanded from fake holding companies to fake storefronts to fake hospitals

Texas is hell.

bsky.app/profile/jnxo...

For anyone tempted to "red states are evil" this, fwiw a similar thing happened to me in NYS in 2012.

Jesus would not be impressed.

“freestanding emergency room”? What is this shit? Who are these ghouls? Fuck everything!

Note to self: do not travel to places with “freestanding emergency rooms”.

Probably in every state 🤷‍♂️

I don’t live in a state.

my bad for assuming!

Are you not excited for SCOTUS to gut EMTALA and that to be every poor's new norm?

and a certain religion making money running independent ERs

Is legally killing women

Hospital administrators with titles such as Chief Strategy Officer make these decisions of not treating patients and get applauded for it.

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