America is Fucked
America is Fucked
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70 year old man survives coronavirus, then recieves $1.1. million hospital bill
https://www.hindustantimes.com/w…
The elderly man was hospitalised at the Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah with Covid-19 for 62 days, so he knew the bill would be a lot. He was unconscious for much of his stay there, but once near the beginning of his illness, his wife Elisa Del Rosario remembers him waking up and saying, “You gotta get me out of here, we can’t afford this.” Just the charge for his room in the intensive care unit was billed at $9,736 per day.
- The bill is technically an explanation of charges, and because Flor has insurance he won’t have to pay the majority of it. In fact, because he had Covid-19...PonyBoy
- ...and not a different disease, he might not have to pay anything at all.PonyBoy
- Yeah that's good news for him. Still completely ridiculous thoughyuekit
- Does insurance actually pay that?omahadesigns
- Depends what kind of plan he has I guess. And what does "the majority" mean out of $1.1 million?yuekit
- I'm curious what the cost would be if one added up the amount of people / training / energy / medical supplies etc etc that are involved.PonyBoy
- (minus all the markup on everything... I'm talking actual cost... wholesale)PonyBoy
- Good question... maybe I'm missing something but $400k seems like a lot to stay in a sealed off room for 5 weeks (this was the single biggest cost)yuekit
- Why not just buy a house and move him there? :)yuekit
- Of course EVERYONE pays for it in ridiculously high insurance premiums. What a joke the US health system is.BusterBoy
- Wonder how long it will take for the debt stress to kill him?PhanLo
- he has no / next-to-no debt (from this event)... according to the articlePonyBoy
- Lucky him. Such a weird system.PhanLo
- Yeah the US healthcare system is a farce, it works better almost everywhere else on the planet.ben_
- Even if insurance covers half of these cases the resulting premiums that will be charged will prove it.ben_
- It’s a pyramid scheme. The system is a fucking jokeGnash
- Healthcare is pathetic in the US. No one should have to worry about surviving debt after they beat a deadly disease. Shameful that people defend this system.formed
- Pull up your bootstraps and get to work. While you're at it, tell the next 4 generations of your family to prepare for the interest payments.ben_
- sad how pony always explains this shit away. A Million dollars is not normal. My mom was in heavy hospice care for 5 months about 10 years ago. I seen the bill.tank02
- before insurances. A fucking fraction of this shit.tank02
- It is only a matter of time before the American healthcare collapses because of the Coronavirus. But like a miracle, its all going to go away.utopian
- At what point did I say 'this is normal', tank?PonyBoy
- Had it been an actual Swedish medical center (in Sweden) the patient bill would be about $650.lnu