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sneakysquid102 t1_jbanfbj wrote
My gf was having showing signs of a stroke. Rushed her to LVHN in east Stroudsburg and wheeled her in as she couldn't stand from numbness. She was slurring and a little disoriented. We were sitting in that waiting room for FOUR HOURS. And we still didn't get to see anyone. Her symptoms cleared and never came back. Still don't know what happened that day.
No thanks to LVHN or course. The east Stroudsburg location is full of drugged up, half certified college kids that don't give a fuck about anything or anybody. Fuck LVHN. I have half a mind to go join that protest.
tinacat933 t1_jbawan4 wrote
She should probably follow up with a neurologist
sneakysquid102 t1_jbawrvw wrote
We tried. The next available appointment was this month actually funny enough. This happened in August 2021
NerdyRedneck45 t1_jbbbgzg wrote
I know a stranger with no medical experience on Reddit ain’t the best option, but have her test for Lyme Disease! I had this exact same thing happen in 2011. Never even found the tick bite but I’m outside all the time so I’m not surprised.
sneakysquid102 t1_jbbc4ix wrote
Well we're pretty sure we know how it happened. We just weren't sure what was happening with her body because of it. We smoke a little weed with, who I thought was a trusted friend. I immediately started shaking uncontrollably. Tremors. I felt like I was having one hell of a panic attack. Not too long after that my gf went through the stroke symptoms. Cut that "friend" off immediately. 99% sure it was laced. The question was with what and what did it do to us.
NerdyRedneck45 t1_jbbc7uf wrote
Oh yikes!
sneakysquid102 t1_jbbcr1f wrote
Part of me half believes it might have been an attack because not too long before that incident I had cut another friend off for stealing from me and other various things that have been building up to that. That friend was also friends with the fella who we smoked with. And the person he was staying with at the time. Everything was just a little too coincidentally
zerobot t1_jbbxkam wrote
Where the fuck are you finding these friends dude?
sneakysquid102 t1_jbcbbv9 wrote
PA lmao. Everyone heres an ass clown🤣 Ive literally cut everyone off other than family and my gf.
Laeif t1_jbcnxw8 wrote
welcome to the Poconos
Lunamothknits t1_jbaaoqw wrote
Exactly.
drxdrg08 t1_jbardx6 wrote
Why don't both of you send a check to cover her expenses?
Doctors aren't going to work for free, and medical equipment costs money. Somebody has to pay for it.
This naive take that everything should be free, and if it's not then it's a grave inhumane injustice is getting old.
jkooc137 t1_jbauzx6 wrote
Ah yes, the go fund me healthcare method, one of the main defects of the American medical system. If only there were some way to just take a little bit of money from everyone's paycheck and put it towards covering the cost of healthcare for literally everyone. "This naive take that everything should be free" like universal, tax funded, and not for profit healthcare systems just don't exist; not to mention they function better because people are more likely to go to the doctor regularly and catch health problems earlier which makes them significantly cheaper and easier to treat. Obviously these guys are saying that EVERYTHING should be free, and definitely not that extortion by price gouging the things people literally need to survive is wrong. It must suck to have to come up with flawed arguments to defend a system that generates a demonstrably worse outcome. Can't be one of those radicals who think taxes should go to social services instead just to the military industrial complex.
nttnypride t1_jbawk82 wrote
But how would universal healthcare for all work in the US? There’s so few examples, just Canada or France or Germany or Costa Rica or Spain or Ireland or Tunisia or Portugal or Norway or Australia or Japan or Netherlands or Iceland or New Zealand or Sweden or United Arab Emirates or….
drxdrg08 t1_jbawrn5 wrote
No universal care system anywhere in the world covers long term care for illegal aliens.
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbaub38 wrote
You might have some of the worst fakes I’ve seen on resdit. So much so that I recognize your handle lol rough one
drxdrg08 t1_jbav23y wrote
So who should pay?
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbayw0s wrote
The hospital could pay it pretty easily
drxdrg08 t1_jbb1af1 wrote
If a hospital provides free healthcare to non-paying patients, then the paying patients pick up the large bill for all.
A hospital doesn't print money. And what happens when you have too many non-paying patients?
> Hahnemann Hospital, which once served the city’s poorest patients, closed in September 2019. The hospital had been suffering millions of dollars in losses a month
pittsburghfun t1_jbbch7g wrote
Friend had a heath care crisis in Italy, was admitted for 3 days. No bills.
drxdrg08 t1_jbbdjra wrote
This illegal alien individual was admitted for 69 days and counting.
That's almost $200,000 if you take the average cost of a hospital bed per day.
They are not paying for any it either. People that pay health insurance will pay for it with higher medical cost and higher insurance premiums.
> On Dec. 29, 2022, a 46-year-old Dominican mother of two was admitted to Lehigh Valley Network’s Cedar Crest hospital
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbb64k5 wrote
Who said free? They can pay for it then bill them later and figure it out.
drxdrg08 t1_jbb85p3 wrote
> They can pay for it then bill them later and figure it out.
So hoping that illegal aliens pay hospital bills is your strategy for keeping the medical system in financial solvency?
Good luck with that.
sixplaysforadollar t1_jbbatsb wrote
Same strategy that’s in place now for people who go to the hospital without insurance yes.
drxdrg08 t1_jbbcmmc wrote
> that’s in place now
I think you missed the part about the illegal alien being at the center of this case. And how millions more are coming across the border right now. It's not sustainable.
You can either have open borders, or a robust social safety net. Not both.
GTholla t1_jbb5l0u wrote
Oh no, won't someone think of the poor, poor shareholders!
drxdrg08 t1_jbbaqhe wrote
It was a non-profit hospital and existed since 1850's.
Lunamothknits t1_jbawx4j wrote
Doctors and other medical staff aren’t paid by patient, they’re salary. 🤦🏻♀️
If they can cover the cost to toss her out of the country. Why can’t they cover the cost to keep her? Y’all are just brainwashed.
ktappe t1_jbb4bhv wrote
Healthcare is a right everywhere else in the world except here. You're gonna stick to your claim that everyone else is wrong but us?
feels_like_arbys t1_jbboyym wrote
I mean sure but at the same time she's been hospitalized for 10 weeks and had brain surgery. Unless the patient and family pay out of pocket, this will be entirely free of charge.
And while in a coma, she might not require to be hospitalized any longer. Then of course, where does she go? No rehab will take her in.
What is LVHN to do if someone doesn't require hospitalization?
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feels_like_arbys t1_jbbqjrz wrote
Do you have any other suggestions? I see you were the one who called them soulless, so i'm deducing you're being sarcastic. Should she stay there for the remainder of her life?
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feels_like_arbys t1_jbbue49 wrote
I'm genuinely curious what else lvhn should do. Options are, as I see them. A) keep her as a patient forever B) send her back to her native country C) place her outside on the curb
I'm in favor of universal Healthcare. All for protecting illegal aliens and letting them become a citizen. But this happens often and in other developed countries
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