{"id":3583,"date":"2016-07-16T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2016-07-16T10:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:13:58","slug":"sanctuary-hospitals-who-pays-the-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary Hospitals: Who Pays the Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFIF.org<\/a> \u2013 by Betsy McCaughey<\/p>\n<p>Medical bills are pushing more Americans into severe financial distress, even if they have insurance. That\u2019s the grim news from a top medical journal. These bills force hundreds of thousands into bankruptcy each year. What\u2019s so galling is that while Americans struggle to pay their bills, freeloaders from other countries get the same care at no cost by gaming our generous open-door hospital policies. They take a flight to the U.S., go straight to an emergency room, and get pacemakers, chemotherapy and other expensive care, leaving U.S. taxpayers to foot their bills. <a href=\"http:\/\/amac.us\/sanctuary-hospitals-pays-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s \r\n validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from \u2013 CFIF.org \u2013 by Betsy McCaughey Medical bills are pushing more Americans into severe financial distress, even if they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}