Abolish private healthcare insurance

UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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My mom, a lifelong nurse, said “that’s obscene” when I told her the cost of the bill last night

this afternoon when I got home from work, she said it even better

“you could have flown your entire family to Costa Rica, gotten that taken care of for $90, spent a week on the beach by your hotel, flown back all healed up, and it would have cost much less”

her and my dad are retired but not yet eligible for Medicare. They are risking no insurance for two years until they are eligible because they both call private healthcare insurance a scam

they are right
 
Fogdog

Fogdog

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UncleBuck said:
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Shot a nail into the bone of my finger a couple months ago

couldn’t pull it out on site. Went home, numbed it with ice, still couldn’t get it

Went to the hospital because bone infections are nasty. They numbed it, pulled it, gave me a tetanus booster and antibiotics

I was in and out in 1.5 hours

guess the total bill folks
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Did you leave them the tip?
 
srh88

srh88

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UncleBuck said:
My mom, a lifelong nurse, said “that’s obscene” when I told her the cost of the bill last night

this afternoon when I got home from work, she said it even better

“you could have flown your entire family to Costa Rica, gotten that taken care of for $90, spent a week on the beach by your hotel, flown back all healed up, and it would have cost much less”

her and my dad are retired but not yet eligible for Medicare. They are risking no insurance for two years until they are eligible because they both call private healthcare insurance a scam

they are right
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Better pull yourself up by the bootstraps and blah blah blah. Even with good insurance it still woulda costed ya. Hospital Bill's are insane. At least it wasn't a trim nail. That woulda blew right through your finger lol
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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srh88 said:
Better pull yourself up by the bootstraps and blah blah blah. Even with good insurance it still woulda costed ya. Hospital Bill's are insane. At least it wasn't a trim nail. That woulda blew right through your finger lol
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We have good insurance. I’m only on the hook for a small fraction of the total bill.

the only reason a hospital can charge that much is because insurance will pay them that much. The government won’t

and that is a 15 gauge trim nail. Blew right through the rabbited door jamb I was assembling. Was kind of a freak occurrence
 
hanimmal

hanimmal

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Your bill is inflated because all of those unpaid emergency room visits get spread out around all of the paid patients.

We are already paying for universal healthcare, just we are stupidly allowing our expensive emergency rooms to bear the brunt.
 
Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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I tripped while going down my basement stairs trying to get away from my wife a couple of months ago, requiring 3 staples on my head.
That experience cost my insurance company $2100 for 3 fucking stitches.
This is a circle jerk of who can fuck the other one over the most effectively, the hospitals or the insurance companies.
Something has to change, but probably never will in a society that exists on money as a God, fuck morality.
Pure capitalism is what's fucking America now (wealth distribution for one example), and will be it's downfall, because it simply leaves too many people, like the majority, in the ground.
 
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schuylaar

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UncleBuck said:
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Shot a nail into the bone of my finger a couple months ago

couldn’t pull it out on site. Went home, numbed it with ice, still couldn’t get it

Went to the hospital because bone infections are nasty. They numbed it, pulled it, gave me a tetanus booster and antibiotics

I was in and out in 1.5 hours

guess the total bill folks
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the hospital has to treat you with or without health insurance Buck.

ad hom fail.

but you are talking microbiology testing which is expensive because you intro'd shite to your bone.

broke my ankle a few months ago and my foot turned black and the size of a melon- i only took three days off because i couldn't afford to stay home from work.

Medicaid picked up the tab and i have no idea what it was..guess i should look it up.

Medicare For All would stabilize the healthcare system.
 
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schuylaar

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hanimmal said:
Your bill is inflated because all of those unpaid emergency room visits get spread out around all of the paid patients.

We are already paying for universal healthcare, just we are stupidly allowing our expensive emergency rooms to bear the brunt.
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just like car insurance.
 
tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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You know, every time I've had any medical claim over the years, you get an insurance paper that reads something like this:

Hospital charges 3,000. Dr. charges 1,100. Highmark pays 975 and 580 because hospital and doctor are in medical network and have an agreement to accept this much for these services.

I once asked if I didn't have insurance how would I have to pay? Some say 4,100. Some say they'd accept the medicare/medicaid rate.

The costs are skewed, they overcharge and accept less 'by agreement between Highmark and participating providers'.

They never actually get what they charge.
 
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mooray

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$7000?

Our healthcare expenses are bullshit, but if you've worked with or near any company that makes medical products, you can see where some of it comes from. Someone sues for something and a whole chain of processes are put in place to ensure it never happens again, which is great, but they way they do it adds so much cost. The medical industry is like the most cliche union you can imagine, but on steroids. You need a dozen people and five hundred pages of documentation to make a scalpel 0.010" longer and all that stuff adds a lot of cost and it's done with eeeeeverything.
 
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