When I broke and dislocated my arm a few years ago, four months’ worth of hospital visits drained my bank account, over $2,000 gone. It was also draining hundreds from my brother’s account, and then the week before Christmas I got hit with a bill for over three thousand dollars to cover the rest of the services rendered, due Christmas eve.
The services that were rendered included having my arm eyeballed by a doctor a few times, two xrays, and that’s it. Nothing for the pain (“Just mix ibuprofen and Tylenol”), nothing to rehabilitate the strength I lost in that arm, just some dick in a coat poking my arm and charging me hundreds for the opportunity.
Had I not gone to the hospital, I wouldn’t have been left penniless. Combine that with my severe anxiety disorder and now I feel fight-or-flight fear responses any time I have to spend more than $100 on something.
Oh yeah, then a few months after that a friend of mine elsewhere in the country fell ill. He didn’t think it was major enough to warrant hospital fees, especially since he was uninsured and made little money. About a week later his condition suddenly went critical, and the next evening his sister informed me that he was dead in the hospital. Leukemia. I’d still be talking to him if it weren’t for the American wealthcare system.
Meh, don’t sweat it. Insurance is literal fraud. There is no healthcare sysytem in USA. Also, there is no USA. Some other fraudster tricked the suckers into them being a leader and auctioned off everything that was their government and literally took everything of value. It ain’t over, just the other day they told the miitary to destroy everything in the capitol.
Thers more but I ain’t typing that much where no one listens.
Yeah. I lived in America for 6 years; and when I left, it was primarily because of the tangible risk of getting in a minor car accident and being financially ruined.
Even so, I quickly forget about the undercurrent of fear and avoidance I had with doctors or clinics of any kind.
So we’d rather take abdominal pain so bad it keeps you from functioning, because the alternative could be an expensive nothing-burger.
You can in America. Going to the hospital for constipation would be a few thousand dollars minimum.
Really? I always joke about the us health system not being free and being expensive but I thought it was expensive only for things like surgery
When I broke and dislocated my arm a few years ago, four months’ worth of hospital visits drained my bank account, over $2,000 gone. It was also draining hundreds from my brother’s account, and then the week before Christmas I got hit with a bill for over three thousand dollars to cover the rest of the services rendered, due Christmas eve.
The services that were rendered included having my arm eyeballed by a doctor a few times, two xrays, and that’s it. Nothing for the pain (“Just mix ibuprofen and Tylenol”), nothing to rehabilitate the strength I lost in that arm, just some dick in a coat poking my arm and charging me hundreds for the opportunity.
Had I not gone to the hospital, I wouldn’t have been left penniless. Combine that with my severe anxiety disorder and now I feel fight-or-flight fear responses any time I have to spend more than $100 on something.
Oh yeah, then a few months after that a friend of mine elsewhere in the country fell ill. He didn’t think it was major enough to warrant hospital fees, especially since he was uninsured and made little money. About a week later his condition suddenly went critical, and the next evening his sister informed me that he was dead in the hospital. Leukemia. I’d still be talking to him if it weren’t for the American wealthcare system.
Do you have insurance?
Nope. None of the jobs I’ve worked ever offered it, and I never had the budget for it. All my medical costs have been covered out of pocket.
Meh, don’t sweat it. Insurance is literal fraud. There is no healthcare sysytem in USA. Also, there is no USA. Some other fraudster tricked the suckers into them being a leader and auctioned off everything that was their government and literally took everything of value. It ain’t over, just the other day they told the miitary to destroy everything in the capitol.
Thers more but I ain’t typing that much where no one listens.
An ambulance ride you didnt even want can run you thousands of dollars.
Nah an ER visit will chew through your deductible
Yes it’s an insane and wildly corrupt system. Just getting seen the hospital is 700+
I have a prescription that costs $15 a month with insurance. Without insurance its $265 a month.
Yeah. I lived in America for 6 years; and when I left, it was primarily because of the tangible risk of getting in a minor car accident and being financially ruined.
Even so, I quickly forget about the undercurrent of fear and avoidance I had with doctors or clinics of any kind.
So we’d rather take abdominal pain so bad it keeps you from functioning, because the alternative could be an expensive nothing-burger.