Woke up nauseaous, vomited about five times, and the last one included blood so I went to the emergency room. I spoke to a doctor for less than five minutes and received no imaging. There was one routine blood draw and an IV with saline and Zofran.
God damn America. $3042 to walk in the door. I could have literally flown back to England and been seen at an NHS hospital for a 5th of the cost.
Fun fact: The United States holds the world record in public healthcare spending per capita.
And still people are being gouged by insurance companies and the medical industrial complex.
This has to be one of the world's biggest and most lucrative grifts.
I knew we were head and shoulders above the rest in total spend but just public is something else
The absolute worst argument against m4a, “who is gonna pay for it?!” Annoys me to no end
We are already all paying for it, many times over
Or the argument of “I don’t want to pay for your problems.”
But you literally are paying for my problems, because that’s how insurance works lol. But you’re paying more than most sane people of the world because some insurance company says you’re not actually injured.
What a shitty thing to say, just totally lacking empathy. Death to amerikkka
Obviously, the libertarian solution is to get ride of Government Mandated Insurance. Once everyone pays with cash (or chickens) the system will magically unfuck itself.
The joke with private insurance is how often they "adjust" down the cost by simply refusing to pay these absurd markups. They don't spend any of their own money. They just tell hospital bill collectors to piss up a rope, ostensibly on your behalf.
But half the reason these prices are so absurd is that hospitals go enormously out of pocket to fight with insurance companies over reasonable expenses. A full third of the Fondren Orthopedic Group budget is in its Claims department, of which 4 staff members handle Medicare and 56 others deal with private insurance.
Efficiency, baby!