{"id":27797,"date":"2023-08-06T12:15:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27797"},"modified":"2023-08-06T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:16:00","slug":"i-seeunfortunately-you-must-now-be-punished-says-doctor-learning-patient-doesnt-have-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/06\/i-seeunfortunately-you-must-now-be-punished-says-doctor-learning-patient-doesnt-have-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I See\u2026Unfortunately, You Must Now Be Punished,\u2019 Says Doctor Learning Patient Doesn\u2019t Have Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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OAKLAND, CA\u2014During a visit Friday to an urgent care facility at which a man seeking medical attention revealed that he did not have health insurance, a doctor reportedly told the patient, \u201cI see\u2026unfortunately, you must now be punished.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s so sad, my friend: You, coming in here, not knowing you have committed a most tragic misstep and will now experience an excruciating pain unlike anything you have felt before,\u201d physician Wendell Treadway said as he stared out the window, laying a scalpel, forceps, and a variety of hypodermic needles on the examination room counter. \u201cYou may think you don\u2019t deserve this, but sadly, rules are rules, and screaming about it will accomplish nothing. You see, we each role a play in this system of ours. Your role is to pay a premium to a PPO or HMO of some sort, and if you fail in this, well, my role is to administer a discipline so severe you will never again seek care from this clinic unless you have the means to pay in full. I wish I could say this will be the worst of it, but the months of receiving bills from us and eventually being hunted down by a collection agency will be a far greater agony.\u201d According to reports, the doctor then removed 60% of the patient\u2019s liver to be held as collateral against his newly incurred medical debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published Friday 7:09AM (TheOnion.com) OAKLAND, CA\u2014During a visit Friday to an urgent care facility at which a man seeking medical attention revealed that he did not have health insurance, a doctor reportedly told the patient, \u201cI see\u2026unfortunately, you must now be punished.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s so sad, my friend: You, coming in… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27798,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions\/27798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}