In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?
In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?
Assuming nobody else is at fault
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In short? Medical debt. Emergency rooms will treat you, and in some cases might offer discounted rates for patients without insurance, but at the end of the day you are still responsible for the bill, however large it may be.
Worth noting that those discounted rates are still significantly higher than what insured patients pay, and astronomically higher than what people in actually sane countries pay.
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