This is purely curiosity. But I’m a bit fascinated by it. The idea is that the USNS Comfort won’t take COVID cases but take non-COVID cases off hospitals hands. Got it. They’re apparently also going to focus on trauma since that’s what military medicine is most geared to.
2/ So let’s say I get some bad compound fracture and need surgery and get taken to the Comfort. They fix me up and I’m out in a day or so. Do I have to pay for that? Does my insurance cover it? I don’t think they have any framework for charging people. The Comfort is designed ...
3/ for wars and humanitarian disasters abroad. It’s not a fee for service operation. I think the answer is that they’ll fix you up and go on your way and that’s great. But will I not have to pay (or share the fee with my insurance company) at the Comfort but I will have to ...
4/ pay if the ambulance brings me to Langone or Mt Sinai? We’ve got much bigger things to worry about and there’s certainly nothing wrong with having a short boat NHS operating in New York City for a while. But I haven’t seen this addressed.
