Some combination of Social Security Disability payments, caring friends and family, private-sector charities, and hospital emergency rooms that aren’t allowed to check for ability to pay before providing treatment. It’s a bad system with a lot of cracks to fall through, and a distressing number of poor people suffer miserable pointless deaths.
Some combination of Social Security Disability payments, caring friends and family, private-sector charities, and hospital emergency rooms that aren’t allowed to check for ability to pay before providing treatment. It’s a bad system with a lot of cracks to fall through, and a distressing number of poor people suffer miserable pointless deaths.