A friend of mine was touring with his band through canada. He contracted Disentary (sp). The hospital sent him out because he was not a citizen and could not make a deposit on his bill. He could not get treatment until his dad wired money to him.
If you filed for FMLA, it is against the law for them to drop you. They can require that you pay the full rate (meaning what you pay plus what your employer usually pays for you) while you are out on disability, or working a reduced schedule, but they can't just drop you. You should call the insurance commision of your state and report them.
I have never heard of a hospital being closed due to lack of funds. I hear of them closing due to skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
subsidized childrens hospital, ie, socialized childrens hospital. If you or an insurance company were paying the bill, you would have many private hospitals to choose from.
In the US, if you need surgery, you can get it done pretty quickly for the most part. In Canada, a girl was telling me who used to live there, ANY surgery they put you on a wait list and you can wait months (and a lot of people die) waiting for their surgery, becasue it's socialized.
It was actually quite a lot more work than just that... wisdom teeth coming in up under molars really pull a number on the rest of your teeth if you don't have any insurance to do anything about it. The worst part was having an abscessed tooth... excruciating pain! When I went to the emergency room they told me to swish salt water and take tylenol... lol... oh, and that little piece of advice cost me $350 as well...
