https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/x3h80z/the_bill_for_my_liver_transplant_us/
If I owe someone 400k it's really more their problem than mine.
if you owe someone 400K it's time to seriously consider leaving the country.
wasn't there a documentary about repo men coming after your organs, something about a genetic opera?
the liver regenerates it's worth noting so both of them have intact livers.
That is true, but it is likely she will have to take anti-rejection drugs everyday for the rest of her life so her body does not attack the liver and kill her.
These drugs are very expensive in america and have many side effects of their own.
Do healthcare ghouls actually expect these to be paid off? Like 180k for a fucking liver? Why the fuck does it cost so much when these body parts are fucking donated for free
They do not. It is primarily used to as a way to create a series of privatized hospitals that finance through their own debt, that can go under at any time while simultaneously pricing local government out of collectivized solutions because they are not allowed to finance their debt in the same ways/ if the township declares bankruptcy it affects more things than if a privatized clinic or hospital declares bankruptcy.
Not to say that it isn't a hugely inflated charge, but the liver charge includes the operation to harvest the organ from the donor, which involves a whole team of people, time in an OR, and possibly specialized transport.
And a lot of the money the medical workers involved make immediately gets stolen by medical school debt and landlords
It actually was donated by her husband, who has his own set of medical transplant bills as a result.
Yeah, I mean Prometheus did it every day and you think you can't handle once a month?!
livers do regenerate very well (they need to to process toxins) and the transplant process is to take some and leave what's left to regrow so yeah you basically could sell the same liver multiple times
Urge to parody and redact insurance lobbyists rising.
Most Americans are just one medical emergency away from losing literally everything and their lives being destroyed.
I wonder what the juice is on this payment plan. like a no points for 6 months, then retroactively like 2% against the original borrowed amount if there's any balance remaining?
the craziest thing to me is that the people behind this think I wouldn't roast and eat their entire family in the ashes of their home before howling at the goddamn moon in atavistic ecstasy.
