This is not a country, this is a money laundering scheme for big businesses pretending that charging someone to save their life isn’t ill gotten gains
Btw the info of the hospital that did this is as follows:
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
Phone: 503-415-5600
Address: 2801 N. Gantenbein Ave. Portland, OR 97227
Would be a shame if they had to hear people were upset by this
That was one of Graeber’s main points in Debt: the first 5000 years, debt is a perfect way to turn relations of violence on their head, making the oppressor seem the victim, and the victim seem to be the one in the wrong.