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St0rmFury
12/02/21 6:55:26 AM
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https://i.imgur.com/g8YewVk.jpg

According to the OP, its for a 1 week stay at the hospital.
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Turtlebread
12/02/21 6:56:41 AM
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can't afford it? don't go to hospital it's simple as that

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lilORANG
12/02/21 6:57:43 AM
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Usually you never even know the cost of treatment until you get the bill.
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spikethedevil
12/02/21 6:58:32 AM
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The fuck at post 3?

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St0rmFury
12/02/21 6:58:44 AM
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Turtlebread posted...
can't afford it? don't go to hospital it's simple as that

Guess I'll just die. *shrug*
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Medussa
12/02/21 6:59:16 AM
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a literal crime against humanity

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viewmaster_pi
12/02/21 7:25:15 AM
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i was charged a few thousand dollars when i went to the ER. they stuck an empty IV port in my hand and i sat there in the waiting room for 6 hours until they finally did some urine and bloodwork. i was there so long that the pain from whatever was wrong subsided and i just told them i don't want any more done, i just want to fucking leave. for the next month i was jumping through hoops trying to get some kind of medical coverage

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AzurexNightmare
12/02/21 7:26:07 AM
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Cool guys. We don't discuss this every day or anything.

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3PiesAndAFork
12/02/21 7:28:12 AM
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Can't you just like, not pay?

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bigtiggie23
12/02/21 7:28:57 AM
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That person is going to have their paychecks garnished for the rest of their life.
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Solar_Crimson
12/02/21 7:41:24 AM
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AzurexNightmare posted...
Cool guys. We don't discuss this every day or anything.
It needs to be discussed as much as possible until there is change for the better.

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viewmaster_pi
12/02/21 7:42:50 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
The fuck at post 3?
you don't seem to ever get sarcasm, lol

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Funkydog
12/02/21 7:44:17 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
The fuck at post 3?

Do you not get poking fun at things? It seems pretty common you miss things like this.

They couldn't be more obvious in mocking the mentality of those who don't care about American healthcare costs.
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Looked gf
12/02/21 7:45:52 AM
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The fuck at post 5?

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Cheater87
12/02/21 7:46:13 AM
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Such is life in Capitalist America.

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spikethedevil
12/02/21 7:56:32 AM
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Funkydog posted...
Do you not get poking fun at things? It seems pretty common you miss things like this.

They couldn't be more obvious in mocking the mentality of those who don't care about American healthcare costs.


This is CE, we have people here who post that kind of shit unironically.

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uwnim
12/02/21 8:49:56 AM
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3PiesAndAFork posted...
Can't you just like, not pay?
Yes. But with that amount of money owed, whoever owns the debt will take it to court to force you to pay. Though all of that assumes you even gave the hospital real information.

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LightHawKnight
12/02/21 8:52:41 AM
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Deuceswild posted...


Healthcare is also an extreme winning issue as everyone, no matter what side of the aisle you're on can come together on outrageous medical costs.

And nothing is going to be done about it. I mean just look at the infrastructure bill, its an extreme winning issue as everyone wants almost everything in it and yet one side fought against almost entirely. That same side for healthcare brought out blank pages to pretend to have a good plan.

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GALA462
12/02/21 8:55:56 AM
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What procedures?

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monkmith
12/02/21 8:59:27 AM
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uwnim posted...
Yes. But with that amount of money owed, whoever owns the debt will take it to court to force you to pay. Though all of that assumes you even gave the hospital real information.
i'd go to court over that bill, i'd turn it into a media circus. 2mil for any medical procedure that doesn't involve some form of bionic man situation is comedic and i'd want others to experience it.

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spikethedevil
12/02/21 9:03:01 AM
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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...
It has to be satire though right? RIGHT?!

I hope it is lol.

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ScazarMeltex
12/02/21 9:07:04 AM
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Deuceswild posted...


Healthcare is also an extreme winning issue as everyone, no matter what side of the aisle you're on can come together on outrageous medical costs.
And yet any action taken to fix it is screeched against as SOCIALISM by one side's politicians.

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Trumpo
12/02/21 9:56:27 AM
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Mearcstapa
12/02/21 10:04:50 AM
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People should be trying to find out where these people running the hospital billing live; soulless gutter slime they are.

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megamanfreakXD
12/02/21 10:11:52 AM
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DD Divine
12/02/21 10:15:47 AM
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You ever wonder what each patients episode weekly visit is on House? I think each episode should end with a screen shot of the bill

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Tom Clark
12/02/21 10:18:49 AM
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Fucking shameful.

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Tyranthraxus
12/02/21 10:19:26 AM
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DD Divine posted...
You ever wonder what each patients episode weekly visit is on House? I think each episode should end with a screen shot of the bill
I've lived through an episode of doctor house and it was more like 20 different bills totalling around $2000 (OOP) just to get diagnosed. I don't know what the provider paid.

This guy probably had a kidney, heart, lung or liver transplant.

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Ilishe
12/02/21 10:30:02 AM
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2 million dollars.

My God.

Go fuck yourselves

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IShall_Run_Amok
12/02/21 10:32:37 AM
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Remember that it's a moddable offense on this website to promote illegal activities. But you can still think it.

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Returning_CEmen
12/02/21 10:40:33 AM
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Yeah our healthcare system is a joke

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Questionmarktarius
12/02/21 10:41:09 AM
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Decades of actually being paid pennies on the dollar from insurance lowballing, government price-fixing (or else!), and just plain indigent writeoffs, means the bill is bloated into absurdity from the start.
This is going to get "settled" for a tiny sliver of that, if not discharged completely somehow.
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Tyranthraxus
12/02/21 10:47:36 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Decades of actually being paid pennies on the dollar from insurance lowballing, government price-fixing (or else!), and just plain indigent writeoffs, means the bill is bloated into absurdity from the start.
This is going to get "settled" for a tiny sliver of that, if not discharged completely somehow.

That's the bill the insurance is paying. He's not paying that.

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MC_BatCommander
12/02/21 10:48:12 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
That's the bill the insurance is paying. He's not paying that.

Insurance will probably pay way less

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Questionmarktarius
12/02/21 10:48:54 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
That's the bill the insurance is paying. He's not paying that.
Neither is the insurance. Low-six-digits is maybe all that's actually being paid.

If you charge a dollar but only get paid 35 cents, the price is $2.86 next time.
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Alteres
12/02/21 10:56:26 AM
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They cant garnish wages for medical bills, they can tank your credit... if you have it.

I owed 75k to one hospital and 5k to another. Wrote a very polite and detailed letter about my financial situation and how there wasnt a chance in hell they were getting their money to the correct office for the 75k, and they politely fucked off.

The second one I actually had coverage, tried to work it out with them three times, was told it was fixed twice, and they kept calling. I stopped answering and after a few months they fucked off as well.

Flash forward a couple years and I got a new line of credit just fine when I finally got around to getting a credit card.

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monkmith
12/02/21 11:09:19 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Decades of actually being paid pennies on the dollar from insurance lowballing, government price-fixing (or else!), and just plain indigent writeoffs, means the bill is bloated into absurdity from the start.
This is going to get "settled" for a tiny sliver of that, if not discharged completely somehow.
fuck no, that's not how it works at all.

hospitals and insurance companies have been running a scam for literally decades. at the beginning hospitals charged "honest" prices, insurance companies came about because sometimes even the "honest" price is to expensive. but insurance companies needed incentive to get people to join, so they started asking hospitals for lower prices compared to the "honest" price. over time hospitals started raising their "honest" price so they could keep making huge bank off of procedures while still offering insurance companies a cut rate.

so that price OP posted, that's the "honest price" that hospitals charge everyone up front. an insurance company who's already negotiated with the hospital network will pay a fraction of that, if you've got no insurance or just shit insurance you get shafted.

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Spiderman23JII
12/02/21 11:10:16 AM
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you can pay them $5 a month

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sabrestorm
12/02/21 11:13:50 AM
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Insurance pays so it is not a problem

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sabrestorm
12/02/21 11:17:36 AM
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I dont believe that much for just a hospital stay, that amount must include procedures and dr fees, my neighbor was in othe hospital for over a week for back surgery, it all came to over $75,000 most of that was for the actual surgery, he has medicaid and didnt pay a dime, us tax payers covered it

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QueenCarly
12/02/21 11:20:07 AM
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sabrestorm posted...
I dont believe that much for just a hospital stay, that amount must include procedures and dr fees, my neighbor was in othe hospital for over a week for back surgery, it all came to over $75,000 most of that was for the actual surgery, he has medicaid and didnt pay a dime, us tax payers covered it

As we should

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Questionmarktarius
12/02/21 11:25:41 AM
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monkmith posted...
if you've got no insurance or just shit insurance you get shafted
Because, an individual doesn't have much means to "negotiate" like insurance or decree like a government program, outside of just declaring bankruptcy.

It's all a sham to make the insurance companies look like heroes somehow, while the hospitals scrabble to get paid anything from broke randos who aren't quite broke enough to get government bennies.

Get rid of third-party payers as a concept, outside of maybe charities and catastrophic coverage, and prices will implode immediately.
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nfearurspecimn
12/02/21 11:28:01 AM
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The fuck at post 12

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12/02/21 11:40:27 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
The fuck at post 3?
Seems like sarcasm tbh

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SaintSeiyaX
12/02/21 11:50:45 AM
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Our healthcare system is a lucrative business so no surprise there.

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