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
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.
For real, isn't the justification for paying interest on debt to cover for the risk of not getting your money back? Well, tough shit, assholes. Statistics sends its regards.
Nothing nastier than me losing 1000s of dollars for something they already gave me
What are they gonna do? Lower my credit score? I can’t afford a house anyway. Suck my whole peepee
This was the lawyer they engaged to help them reduce the bill. Maybe don't shoot him yet lmao
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."
they considered it life saving efforts. The lawyer was able to show that he was declared brain dead within the hour and so she only had to pay for that initial period when he first arrived
PMC managerial praxis
Also shout out to the billion dollar industry of making products out of donated tissue. I'm looking forward to when multiple salesmen come up to grieving families to compete for the donation.
if this happened to me i cant say i wouldnt kill a mfer and flee to cuba
It's so weird the disparity that the working class is so terrorized by corporations but almost all of the terrorism is privileged bored racist right wingers.
Sadly, communists are still a very small minority of Americans. Most of them still support capitalism and therefore things like this.
My insurance's deny-you-medicine office is fully on the other side of the country from me, last time I had to deal with them I noticed that, and I'm sure it's not an accident. Especially since afaik they don't operate in that state.
There's a novella about that exact scenario:
https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/
She names the hospital later in the thread. The hospital’s name is Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.
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General Number: 503-413-2200
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Administrative Office Phone: 503-415-5600
Address:
2801 N. Gantenbein Ave. Portland, OR 97227
Hospital is owned by the private for-profit Legacy Health:
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website: https://www.legacyhealth.org/
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facebook: https://m.facebook.com/ourlegacyhealth
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twitter: https://twitter.com/ourlegacyhealth
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instagram: https://instagram.com/ourlegacyhealth
Anyone who lives in oregon should also be removing their organ donor status and emailing / calling their rep about this abuse. If you live in Portland complain to your city councilman.
How to remove Organ Donor in Oregon:
To remove an organ donor designation from your license or ID card, you will need to go into your local DMV office and pay the fee for a new license or ID card.
This is from an older pre-covid website, so go dig around if you care and find a potentially updated answer. I cannot fathom why you wouldn’t care about your organs, however.
Other Steps for someone else to do:
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Look up exec / admin staff on LinkedIn. Pay attention to billing, revenue, and operations roles.
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Package all this together and send to local portland news stations. Doesn’t matter if it happened a while ago, twitter thread blowing up makes it relevant again. If the news gets this tip from multiple sources, it increases chances they’ll run with it.
I’m not sure what the phone number directs to. Ideally the billing department or press.
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Tbh as long as I live in the USA I flat out refuse to be an organ donor.
You know I volunteered to be an organ donor thinking it'd help someone live. This made me go from "lets get some universal healthcare" to "set every one of these ghouls on fire and throw them into the grand canyon Barbara pit style"
I've heard too many horror stories like this one and worse. Absolutely agree with "set every one of these ghouls on fire and throw them into the grand canyon Barbara pit style", but barring that happening I would rather every one of my organs rot in the ground than profit the same motherfuckers who've refused me treatment for the majority of my adult life.
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
Used some disposable accounts to email their donation and their employment emails, and will call later. It ain't much but it would be nice if they expect some new hires or some donations, only for them to see emails shitting on them.
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.
