Tbc, my complaint isn't about the high price per se - I have no idea how much medical care "should" cost. It's that I couldn't make an informed choice about how much care to purchase.
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When I was in the burn unit for 3 weeks and kept begging everyone at the hospital to tell me how much the stay was costing me. Everyone claimed not to know. One person said "Not sure, but definitely less than $1,000/night." When the bill came it was $10,000 per night.https://twitter.com/AllOnMedicare/status/1124042436345569286 …
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... oh and the $10,000 per night was just for one night in the hospital bed -- that does not include the cost of the treatments, ambulance ride, etc. I just thought at *least* the hospital should be able to tell me the cost of a hospital bed per night? But no.
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In fairness, they didnt know.
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Yes, that's a defense of the doctors/nurses -- but not of the system.
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Absolutely. Its an indictment of the system.
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tbh, Julia, I think your stay in the burn unit radicalized *a few* people, not only because of the nightmare cost scenario but also because they kept doing painful procedures on you without giving the oral pain medication enough time to take effect
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OH YEAH I had honestly forgotten about that
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Whoa! It would be awesome if you made a YouTube video telling this story
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As a Canadian, we don't understand how your citizens are against things like socialized health care. Never in my life have I cared what a health related thing may cost, it's never entered my mind, and more importantly, people with less privilege have access.
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It's been a wildly successful brainwashing campaign. The wealthy, who don't want to pay taxes at all, much less their fair share, convince the middle class that their taxes will skyrocket with more social programs. Rich people don't want to pay for anything that 1/2
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they don't benefit directly from and a lot of the middle class don't want to pay for "lazy" poor people to have services. They can't see the benefits to everyone in/no one out care. It's really racist, classist and disturbing. 2/2
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This is an argument for more free market capitalism, showing too much government in healthcare. Once prices can go online cost will drop.
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Really? Because we have pretty much the entire world to look at here and many better examples to follow, none of which use the more free market example.
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Singapore's healthcare system is more free market and it is high quality.
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Try again. It’s a mixed market at best, which includes a universal health care system we lack.
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When I was in Singapore I went to the hospital with a friend who’d gotten sick when we were in Borneo. She paid just a few dollars for emergency care because of the universal healthcare model. As Americans, it fell so good to be in a civilized hospital not terrorized by the cost.
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As a European, the idea of you having to even think about that seems so, so, wrong to me
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As a European who now lives in the US, you can imagine how terrifying it is
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