What ACTUALLY Happens if someone in a hospital can’t pay their medical bill?

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What ACTUALLY Happens if someone in a hospital can’t pay their medical bill?

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That depends entirely on where the person is located.

For example, in Minnesota you are cared for until you are able to be safely discharged, then you get a bill. If that bill is not paid, it can go to collections, or potentially written off by the hospital as bad debt and never go to collections.

In the US, I believe there are laws against the refusal of emergency care, so you always will have that if you need it.