Delighted at Roanoke Times' Coverage of Health Issue
When 400 people showed up for the health meeting Dr. Cotter and others sponsored in Roanoke, I was delighted to see the Roanoke Times giving it major coverage and then a continued focus on the problems inherent in Carilion's actions, in particular their penchant for over 100 court cases every Friday, taking people to court for payment of hospital bills...even putting liens on their homes.
My feeling is a bright light has now been switched on, and hopefully those folks unable to pay their health care bills will have other options provided to them, such as small monthly payments or even forgiveness of debt when there is simply nothing there to be collected.
My feeling is a bright light has now been switched on, and hopefully those folks unable to pay their health care bills will have other options provided to them, such as small monthly payments or even forgiveness of debt when there is simply nothing there to be collected.
posted by Marion | 11:32 AM
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I am so glad that Carilion's greediness and lack of compassion is being exposed. This is near and dear to my heart because we had no insurance when both of our children were born. We were so fortunate to find doctors (for the first) and midwives (for the second), as well as hospitals, who allowed us to make monthly payments on our bill. And we did pay the entire thing off eventually. But it appears that we would have lost our house had we been unfortunate enough to be forced to get care through Carilion. (In fact, we did live in Roanoke when my daughter was born. Dr. Luth and Dr. Bono in Bedford County as well as the hospital there allowed us to pay it off gradually. We will always be grateful. God bless them.)
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