Current Events > Hospital charges $725 for anit-nausea drug that in tables just costs like $3

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Profit over people. The GOP are fighting to keep it this way. Stop voting for them.

ToPoPO posted...

You're the one failing logic when I give you reasons why it's not all the nurse doing the work in administrating a drug but then you choose to bring up the nurse doing everything anyway

and I'm out of here, no need to argue with someone who moves the goalpost and changes drug names to other drugs to push his narrative

you listed all activities the nurse administering it would be doing bro

DrizztLink posted...

My dude, I spent enough time in nursing school to know that you are wrong.

That extra money is 100% because of hospitals and insurance companies playing silly buggers with prices because they can.

Also there was no need to push IV ondasteron, pill form would have been perfectly fine.

thank you

my guess is he won't return to this thread

@ToPoPO

ToPoPO posted...

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/1-3-physicians-has-been-sued-age-55-1-2-hit-suit

America is litigation happy, they sue anyway and win.

From your link:

Yet in the vast majority of claims, the plaintiffs do not prevail

WingsOfGood posted...

and I'm out of here, no need to argue with someone who moves the goalpost and changes drug names to other drugs to push his narrative

oh I didn't even catch this.

wtf is he talking about?
Man these posters always do this shit. Anyone can verify against your claim here that you are full of bs. Yet you try to act like I had done something deceitful. Holy
fucking
shit
these posters

Literally lying the dipping to win an internet argument? Like wtf
like seriously wtf

Is this only a problem in the United States?

samurai bandit posted...

Is this only a problem in the United States?

correct

and ironically the USA is the greatest country types also defend this staunchly saying dumb shit like "but the nurse has to like wash the syring or something so like $700 upcharge makes total sense!!!"

WingsOfGood posted...

that is a bad argument. that just means the hospital admin is taking too much profit that should go to the nurses

sure but if there was less money, whose paychecks would it come out of, do you think?

DarthAragorn posted...

American healthcare system is complete horseshit

This. I believe America has the most fucked up health system in the first world

WingsOfGood posted...

Where did the rest of the $670 go?

good question: hospitals' operating margins are extremely narrow. my suspicion is most of it goes to covering the cost of patients who cannot pay their bills at all.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/tumultuous-year-for-hospitals-results-in-55-drop-in-median-operating-margin-kaufman-hall-finds.html

Overall, hosptials saw their median operating margin at 0.3 percent in 2020, without funding from the CARES Act. With funding, the median operating margin was 2.7 percent.