Paying Hospital Bills in Poland

My fiancée and my were separated due to the pandemic. He's in Poland. I'm in America. He is now hospitalized with Covid 19. Bills are piling up. He doesn't need to worry needlessly. Can I have the bills sent to me and pay for them with my credit cards?

All costs of treatment related to Covid-19 are free in Poland irrespective of whether you have health insurance or not.

Thank you. Does Poland also take care of the elderly that is hospitalized due to poor health?

Yes. Completely.

Thank you. Turns out I am extraordinarily naive and stupid. I appreciate the responses.

Coz sb told you that bills were piling up, suggesting you do sth about it?

It happens to many people, so don't beat yourself up over it. If you're in the US, high hospital bills would be normal for you, so it's easy to see how you could be deceived.

Yes. Exactly that. I've been helping my boyfriend/fiancée or whatever with medical bills as he's stuck in Poland. And he probably isn't even sick or in the hospital .... who knows. It's not like I can navigate the Polish medical system or language. He may not even be there - Gdańsk.

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. He has some explaining to do for sure :)

But some people can`t bear the thought of being ripped off. E..g, me. When I feel they are exploiting me, I raise hell although I tend to be calm and complacent in everyday life situations.

Karma always works - sometimes takes many years.

Yes, but I don`t want karma to return to the person who rips me off. I prefer to stop the act when I can and avoid further consequences, for them and me.

Why shouldn`t we revel when we see that karma has struck our wrongdoers? Coz it always goes with the trymph of fulfilled vengence. It doesn`t matter that we didn`t take revenge personally but were replaced my mythical karma. We relish our wrongdoer`s misfortune and that is really a negative feeling.

I sometimes wish it did.

Other times I wish it didn't hold some of us to such high standards.

The OP should (and surely will) use his/her own judgement in the matter. The boyfriend may well have Covid related costs/misfortunes, They aren't however 'hospital bills' or 'medical bills', something normal for Americans, not so normal in Europe.

Yes, rent, monthly payments etc. Loss of job, btw.

Even very likely.

Yes. He has lost his job and has been trying to get work at the port when he could. But I've been helping with daily expenses already. And yet even when I called him on it - he insists it's medical bills.

For medicine at the pharmacy, the amount that's refundable does vary; other people here could probably say more about that than me.

People do use private doctors here, more than in, say, the UK, however if I need to go I pay 100zl ($25) for a visit and the meds they prescribe rarely exceed that even though I just buy them rather than use the national health service. If it's something serious, people are treated on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.

Right now, there's no shortage of work for physical workers. He could walk into a factory and get a job tomorrow.

@Delph
If he really had a bad case of corona then he might not be able to work physically atn. Not that I would take his word for it

Nah, me neither. It's the oldest trick in the book to ask for money for medical bills from foreigners.

McDonald's are begging for staff.

Also plenty of work for delivery drivers and in supermarkets and warehouses

All temp stuff and it will dry up in a few months but certainly at the moment it's available