From Stark
In Las Cruces, N.M., a local hospital recently billed a woman $1,122 to cover the cost of conducting a police-ordered cavity search on her.
According to this report in the Las Cruces Sun-News, the police had enough evidence to get a search warrant from a local judge to have the invasive procedure done. They believed the woman was concealing heroin, and took her to the hospital for the search.
But no heroin was found, and now the woman’s attorney has written a letter to the county putting forth the proposition that the county, not the woman, should pay the hospital bill.
This might be a good time to check the fine print in your own health insurance policy.
This general human interest story, seems out of place on the Politics Blog, with a “heath care reform” tag.
That aside, if the cost of the cavity search is the political topic, shouldn’t a mans be a lot less expensive than a woman’s? Seems reasonable that it should, as there is less cavities to search.
Lastly, it does seem fair that the county pick up the tab for the search. Perhaps even if they
had found contraband as it is basically contracting out what other institutions do themselves.
Make the judge pay, and then make him and the police write a letter of apology to the woman.
Maybe it would have been cheaper to just send her to the airport?
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/11/airport_body_scan_protesters_p.php
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
So, I say to the officer, “Cavity search? …but, I just saw my dentist last week !”