Written by DAYTONA BEACH — A cast member of a docudrama TV series claims that after being hospitalized at Halifax Health Medical Center for injuries from a motorcycle accident during Bike Week, he was subsequently discharged because he lacked insurance.
But Halifax Health officials, who could not speak to the specific case because of patient confidentiality laws, said a patient’s ability to pay is never a factor in the health care services they provide or discharge decisions. The 558-bed facility is the only public hospital in the area.
Josh Owens, who stars in the Discovery channel show “Moonshiners,” said his care at the Daytona Beach hospital was stellar until a female employee inquired about how he intended to pay and that “his insurance had run out.”
Owens, 40, of Asheville, North Carolina, said he was surprised by the statement since he has not had any insurance coverage since he was 21. Less than a day after the encounter, Owens said he was discharged from the hospital.
He added that he didn’t expect a handout from the hospital just because he lacked traditional health coverage. “Send me a bill and I would pay what I can,” Owens said.
“I was too screwed up to ask a whole lot of questions. I was in the hospital for a few days before they said anything about insurance.”
Owens was taken to Halifax Health by ambulance on March 16 after he was thrown from an antique motorcycle while preparing for an exhibition race at the New Smyrna Speedway. He was expected to participate the next day in Billy Lane’s Sons of Speed Vintage Motorcycle Race.
Owens said the accident broke all but one of his ribs, punctured a lung, broke his collarbone and shoulder blade and stripped the skin off one of his pointer fingers down to the bone. He said he initially spent five days at the hospital.
In response to an inquiry from The News-Journal, hospital officials said they could not accurately say how long a patient might stay in the hospital for broken ribs. The length of stay, officials said, would depend on other injuries, age and various other factors.
Taking all these factors into consideration, a patient’s hospital stay could be for one day or as long as 10 days, said Ann Martorano, a Halifax Health spokeswoman.
“People break their ribs all the time. Some of them are never admitted to the hospital; it’s just a matter of taping them up,” Martorano said. “It’s all based on the total picture of the patient.”
do you think the law will let people make elegal moonshe on tv get reel
The law dose not know what’s being distiled in them jars on tv could be water ,there’s just know evidence what’s being distiled you have to be cought with moonshine to be charged with a crime 😂😆🤣
How come Mike and Jerry are so stupid plastering, Tennessee Moonshiners on the back window of Mikes truck!? And Mark and Digger making moonshine right in the middle of town!? Also don’t you think that the police are watching this show DUH! A real moonshiner would never expose his identity! Which leads me to believe that this show is fake or scripted. Just like a bunch of show’s I used to watch until I found out that they were fake.
They sell those bumper stickers in convenience stores. Do a search for them. region. Yup, the law is getting their info from stickers on cars…
Exactly what town are Mark and Digger making moonshine in? All that’s ever shown is an arial view of a town, who knows if it’s the same town that their building is in. The shine they do make there are test batches. You don’t see them with 300 gallon submarine or any type of large quantity setups.
My two roommates and I were producing 1-2 gallons/week in my basement with the police station one block away and the fire department two blocks away. We also brewed 15 gallons of beer every Sunday, which by quantity qualified us as a micro-brewery, and the only problem we had was where to put the bottled beer as it self-carbonated.
My personal option is they all moonshiners at one time now they just go threw the steps of making shine and invading the law and so on but i know for a fact they or i should say most of them have longtime moonshine history good drama show its well liked right?
every one of them are now legal distillers…they may have been in the woods way back when but not anymore
Why does the headline say Josh died? He’s alive and kicking.
At one point it went viral that Josh died but we know that’s not the truth and it was a shared post I just shared the post onto my blog 😂 but yep he’s alive and well thank God
we enjoy “Moonshiners” and by having a legal still very close by( HILLTOP” at Maidens VA) I frequent them with lots of questions. of how do they do this.