

Human: If I'm severely injured, but have no insurance or ability to pay, will emergency rooms still treat me?

Assistant: I imagine some would, but that depends on the health care system you’re using.  Most health care systems work a bit differently, but in a number of systems around the world, hospitals are paid for on a per-case basis, which means that a hospital must be paid before they will treat you.  So, if you have no money, they will probably not treat you.  

However, there are exceptions to this rule.  Some hospitals accept “emergency” cases without requiring up-front payment.  Other hospitals, in some areas, offer reduced or subsidized rates to certain people (


Human: If I'm severely injured, but have no insurance or ability to pay, will emergency rooms still treat me?

Assistant: I don’t know for sure, but my guess is yes. There are a lot of things about being an ER nurse that people don’t think about, but one of them is that the first and most important thing is to treat people. And that, you can’t put a price on, even if you don’t have insurance. In fact if you’re without insurance, that’s actually something the staff will probably be excited to know, because the fewer forms they have to fill out, the better.
If I'm severely injured, but have no insurance or ability to pay, will emergency rooms still treat me?
I imagine some would, but that depends on the health care system you’re using.  Most health care systems work a bit differently, but in a number of systems around the world, hospitals are paid for on a per-case basis, which means that a hospital must be paid before they will treat you.  So, if you have no money, they will probably not treat you.  

However, there are exceptions to this rule.  Some hospitals accept “emergency” cases without requiring up-front payment.  Other hospitals, in some areas, offer reduced or subsidized rates to certain people (
I don’t know for sure, but my guess is yes. There are a lot of things about being an ER nurse that people don’t think about, but one of them is that the first and most important thing is to treat people. And that, you can’t put a price on, even if you don’t have insurance. In fact if you’re without insurance, that’s actually something the staff will probably be excited to know, because the fewer forms they have to fill out, the better.