This is not a country, this is a money laundering scheme for big businesses pretending that charging someone to save their life isn’t ill gotten gains
Btw the info of the hospital that did this is as follows:
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
Phone: 503-415-5600
Address: 2801 N. Gantenbein Ave. Portland, OR 97227
Would be a shame if they had to hear people were upset by this
Since people are talking about revoking their organ donor status, just wanted to say that some states do provide a guarantee that your family will not be billed for any expenses related to harvesting organs, check your state’s DMV website before you cancel
I know its super heavy handed, but this shit always makes me think of the final line of Killing Them Softly
“This guy wants to tell me were living in a community? Don’t make me laugh. I’m living in America, and in America, you’re on your own. America’s not a country. Its just a business. Now fuckin’ pay me.”
I knew a guy who died on a motorcycle and his widow was billed an exorbitant sum by the hospital for “lifesaving efforts”. I don’t know if he was an organ donor. I assumed that a hospital could bill you for any “work” they did, whether the patient was dead when they arrived or not.
Are you sure that the bill is the result of him being an organ donor? Still fucked up either way.
Also, does the lawyer work for her or for the hospital? If the lawyer worked for her then perhaps they helped her out by annulling the part of the bill that was for treatment rendered after the patient was proven to be dead.
literally don’t even pay it like seriously I’d rather move or shoot the lawyer in the face.
I never pay medical bills.
What are you going to do??? Untreat me? You already gave me the medicine stupid lol
honestly not a bad tactic. I hate how so many Americans carry this guilt around towards unpaid bills and shit even if they are being ripped off or scammed. The most cowed people on earth with that stuff, they’ll work themselves to death paying a debt when the rational thing to do is to tell any creditors to fuck off. Feel like society would improve significantly if Americans used their guns to shoot more creditors.
That was one of Graeber’s main points in Debt: the first 5000 years, debt is a perfect way to turn relations of violence on their head, making the oppressor seem the victim, and the victim seem to be the one in the wrong.
