• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    Fuck off, turtle. No one gives a shit for your health on our dime. Most of the shit going on is your fucking fault.

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    His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving.

    How absolutely splendid for him. Pretty neat to be covered by quality healthcare at the expense of the taxpayers, I should imagine. Even better to be wealthy enough to go beyond even that.

    Meanwhile I am still fighting my insurance to cover a $1k blood draw that is absolutely covered by my shit coverage. Fuck him. Fuck the insurance companies and fuck the elected officials that consistently battle the American people at the behest of their financiers.

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      The fuck it costs 1000 dollars to get some blood drawn? What the fuck is happening in America.

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        It is a scam pulled by insurance companies.

        Let say there is a doctor that charges $100 for a visit. They come too then and say “we have large network, we can provide many patients for you, but we will pay 20% of your price”.

        The doctor still needs to get $100, because also needs to pay the staff and other expenses, so s/he raises their price to $500.

        Now someone without insurance comes. The doctor doesn’t need $500, and is ok charging just $100. But if s/he does the insurance might sure them that the doctor lied to them and they only supposed to pay $20. So they are forced to charge $500.

        In summary, that $500 is never paid by anyone unless they don’t have insurance.

        You can check how much discount insurance pays by looking for “adjustment” column on your bill.

        They purposefully use that name and posting the difference instead of price to obfuscate this.

        What insurance is paying is the billed amount minus adjustment minus your copay and deductible.

        There are other things contributing to high prices, but this is the biggest one IMO. If we didn’t have insurance meddling with the prices, the prices would be much lower. Still high, but at least something someone could be able to pay.

        The markups on labs are even more ridiculous, unless it is some highly specialized test they are actually cheap to the point that some insurances don’t even require copays.

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        I went to the urgent care (and was unfortunately referred to emergency care in the same building) for some chest pain a few weeks ago. Here’s some of my bill (luckily most should be covered by insurance, we’ll see if they give me trouble)

        • Blood draw/lab test: $446.63
        • Plasma test: $158.07
        • Chest x-ray: $664.66
        • “Emergency services” or in other words, the bill for getting transfered from urgent care to emergency: $3,987.00
        • ECG: $1,024.94

        All of that, just for them to tell me that I was fine and to just rest. $6,295.29 for an hour long visit. If I didn’t have insurance, I wouldn’t be able to afford that and would have just preferred whatever was going to happen to me.

        Meanwhile the fucking shitty human beings in Congress get free universal healthcare.

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          I can tell you to rest for, I dunno, $500?

          (Jokes aside, that’s shitty and I’ve been there)

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          I was in an accident a few years back and broke my orbital floor, sphenoid, and ended up with pneumocephalus. I was there for about 32 hours total and ended up with a 150k bill. 65k of that was imaging.

          this country is so fucking broken. imagine even being able to go to the hospital for “flu like symptoms”, most of us would never do that cause we know it’d be a 10k bill.

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        Yeah, I have labs I’ve been putting off for like 6 months because I know it’s going to end up being like a $400-600 bill. They’re just standard labs, CMP, CBC, lft

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    he’s like one of the vultures from the jungle book, but an unholy death cult pelican

    please fucking return to dust you worthless leech

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    Don’t worry.

    He’ll receive the best healthcare available that millions of other Americans don’t have access to and he won’t lose his job or have to ask his fellow employees to donate sick hours to him.

    All after spending an entire career teaching other Republicans how to subvert our democracy.

    Death cannot come soon enough to this traitor.

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    McConnell Mitch, Moscow’s Bitch!
    McConnell Mitch, Moscow’s Bitch!
    C’mon, say it with me.
    McConnell Mitch, Moscow’s Bitch!
    LOUDER!\

    McConnell Mitch, Moscow’s Bitch!

    McConnell Mitch, Moscow’s Bitch!

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    I do not wish him dead, but I will read his obituary with great pleasure.

    Joking, of course. I have better things to do than read his obituary.