Sioux Valley Hospital Ass'n v. Tripp County

I dissent.

County should be responsible for the medical bills from the date it received the notice of hospitalization until the date the patient was discharged from the hospital. In other words, although County is not responsible for the 15 days prior to notice, once it received notice of the hospitalization and did nothing to make substitute arrangements, nor did anything to inform Hospital that it was not going to pay for the hospitalization, it should be held responsible for the medical expenses incurred after notice, i.e., from September 7, 1984 through October 22, 1984.-

The statutes1…