‘I don't want to get involved’: Nurse overhears patient's plan of using someone else's health insurance, decides to risk her career and not report them

Different countries have different benefits that can appeal to their citizens. In some countries, it is extremely affordable to buy a house, in some countries the average salary allows citizens to live comfortably for most of their lives, and some countries have great healthcare plans that put citizens' minds at ease.

The US is not great when it comes to the latter, and many American citizens daily worry about their health because they simply cannot afford to go to a doctor, probably like the patient described in this Reddit story. OP (original poster) is a nurse in training, and she overheard a patient talking in Spanish with her mom about using someone else's health insurance. OP, who knows firsthand how expensive healthcare can be, decided to risk her career and not report the patient about the potential fraud. The later comments from Redditors pointed to split opinions about the matter.

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