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Dude should have called 911 when he was at 12 hours of insulin left and let the hospital and the insurance company fight it out.

That's seriously f'ed up.

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Have you ever gotten an ER bill for something you didn't absolutely have to get an ER bill for, in retrospect? It's a few thousand dollars worth of regret.

Yeah, that's what the mandatory price lists in hospitals are designed to do. Instead of going to the hospital to get treated for cancer and get stunned by the huge bill after you now conclude that you can't afford lifesaving treatment and stay home.

If you don't believe that's the purpose of the new regulation you are insufficiently cynical. Where's the revolution?

Or you start cooking meth.

I hear that hijinks ensue when you do that.

Best case scenario, though, you win an Emmy

Then you sell the Emmy, and you'll have enough money for one month worth of insulin.

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