Consider a situation in which you’re a doctor, and you are faced with a patient who has an illness in which no insurance company would take. This is often called a preexisting condition. The patient wants you to sign him off as being healthy so that he can apply for insurance, and you know he needs care as soon as possible. The question is, would you commit insurance fraud in order to get that patient needed health care?

Most people would probably say that they wouldn’t sign the patient off as being healthy because that would be fraud. If I were the doctor, I honestly think it would be a situation I would consider, but in the end I would probably not sign off the patient as being healthy. You are weighing the situation of breaking the law or helping a sick person, I’m sure this is something many doctors are faced with everyday, and in the end I think most of them probably decline to commit that fraud.

The Patient is Your Brother

But, what about a situation in which the patient is a close relative, maybe your brother. This is something in all honesty, faced with this type of situation, I think I would have to consider. It’s wrong, but faced with a situation in which your brother either receives medical help or he doesn’t, I honestly feel that I would look for a doctor that would sign him off as being healthy.

With that said, I think I would look for Federal programs, state programs, or any other organization that would help. But in this hypothetical situation that we made, it’s not about the legalities of it all, it’s about one main question.

And the main question is, would you extend help to someone who desperately needed it, even if that meant committing a crime?