Americans pay more for health care than any other people on Earth. The U.S. ranks last among 11 nations in several categories, including access, efficiency, equity and health outcomes. Even worse, adult life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen below that of 56 countries on six continents.
Yeah, but if you’re rich you can cut in line. Won’t anyone think of the rich???
I went to an annual check up a month ago. Got my abdomen and throat pushed on for lumps, got a flu shot, got a prescription for ADHD meds (just the paper), got a blood test for cholesterol (cheapest part of the itemized invoice). Total without insurance was $523 for less that a 10min stay, with insurance it was $10. New insurance (Blue Cross) denied paying for my meds even though I’ve been taking them since middle school. Our country is garbage because we care about investors above all else.
Investors are good at getting Christians to vote in the interest of investors using two or three wedge issues. Investors don’t need guns, they have guards, no need for public education, private schools, if they need an abortion, they fly wherever their mistress can get one. Meanwhile, Republicans.
It’s amazing how many Americans think we pay more for having the best medical system in the world, instead of the fact that we pay considerably more for an at-best mediocre system by the standards of the industrialized world.
It helps offset the costs of healthcare in the rest of the world
Miracle drugs like penicillin, insulin, and salbutamol that have saved millions of lives were all discovered/purified outside the US. Still, I expect the US charges more for each of these drugs than the countries that actually developed them.
The ‘Americans are martyrs’ idea of the silly cost of the US system doesn’t hold water. The pharmaceutical companies are just greedy, and politicians are in their pockets.
I know people in the industry that have said as much
USA USA USA
Looking it up St. Lucia is around 300k per night
That’s gonna be a no from me dawg.
I get sick just from this fact
The Fiji one is $2800 + tax per night for the single room villa.
Looking up some rooms in the UK, they stop showing prices above about £4k/night and change the “select” button to “enquire”.
What’s the St. Lucia one called?
Lover’s Deep St. Lucia Submarine
$6,000 for a night in the hospital, two CAT scans, and 20 stitches. With insurance.
So the price without health insurance would have been anywhere between $40-100k, probably.
Ouch
It can be <$6,000 cash and I wouldn’t be surprised.
This is the figure I once heard:
Delivering a baby with awesome health care plan: $12,000, you pay $2,000 (of course you pay more monthly for having this plan)
With mediocre health care plan: $8,000 and you pay $3,000
Without health care plan: $4,000 and you pay all of it.
The same $4,000 care is priced based on how much money they can get from you (or your plan)
Same delivery
How do poor people afford to have babies? Double whammy given the statistically higher number of babies and limited birth control options for lower incomes.
Oh ho, just wait till you hear about the costs of raising a child!
but seriously, that’s a good question, and I have no idea 🙃
Actually, without insurance, it may be cheaper. Costs are massively inflated because it’s expected that the insurance company will negotiate it down. If you have no insurance, they will probably bill you a more “reasonable” rate.
I was speaking more of the billed cost before we’re expected to beg the hospital to be lenient so we don’t get financially destroyed.
I was born at a hospital that couldn’t charge my parents much because they barely had money to their names - through the same process.
Had my gallbladder removed in February, and pancreatitis 2 weeks ago. Spend a total of 3 days in the hospital. Total cost is 500 euro own risk. And 15 euros in parking.
Just had a random medical event that could have resulted in heart failure where I was in the hospital for a week. Major surgery included before insurance was 210,000$ lol
Still waiting to see what insurance denies coverage of
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I’m sorry you were born without a brain.
They couldn’t afford it.
That’s sad, but true. The system works because voters keep voting for the wrong party, time and time again.
IndeedIn debt*Couldn’t afford that without an Auslandskrankenschein
St. Lucia looks cool and scary at the same time. Hope it doesn’t spring a leak while you’re asleep! 😟
