Medicare Bears
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Spring times here, so you're going to be smiling a lot more. |
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| 0:22.4 | Sarah Cliff, you've been reporting on insane ER bills Americans have received in the mail. |
| 0:27.8 | Could you tell us about the most insane of all the insane bills you've seen? |
| 0:35.9 | I think the wildest one is the story of this guy named Justin Sanders who was walking down |
| 0:41.4 | the sidewalk in San Francisco, gets hit in the face by a pole hanging off a public bus. |
| 0:47.2 | Ouch. |
| 0:47.8 | Nocton conscious, taken to the hospital by an ambulance, wakes up there, has some scans, |
| 0:53.4 | gets some stitches for a big cut he has in his face. |
| 0:56.3 | A few weeks later, he gets a bill for over $27,000 and he had private insurance. |
| 1:01.8 | So this is someone with coverage. |
| 1:04.3 | He ends up spending two years in a lawsuit suing the city to cover the bill because it was |
| 1:10.4 | a public bus that hit him. |
| 1:12.6 | He actually had to delay his wedding because of all these court dates. |
| 1:15.9 | And he did win, so the bill doesn't exist anymore. |
| 1:19.0 | But it was just mind boggling to me that in the United States you could be hit by a public |
| 1:23.8 | bus, taken to a public hospital, and end up $27,000 in debt. |
| 1:30.8 | In my view, and I think I speak for everybody up here, the American people are increasingly |
| 1:36.7 | clear. |
| 1:38.0 | They want a health care system that guarantees health care to all Americans as a right, |
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