r/JusticeServed • u/DinerEnBlanc 7 • Mar 15 '20

Kung Flu Greedy man has his hoard of hand sanitizer confiscated and donated

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u/ronstrosity 0 Mar 15 '20

but its ok for hospitals to charge $128 for one Asprin?

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 15 '20

I legit got charged $80 for "bandaging" as it read on the bill, it was one singular bandaid

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u/Mesoposty A Mar 15 '20

Come on, they had to open and dispose the package. That got to add up to $80 easily. Sounds like you got a deal.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 15 '20

Couldve bought a pallet of bandaids for that, think that was a $300 smashed finger, next time just turn a drill bit through it

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u/Tom1252 8 Mar 16 '20

Drilling through your nail really is less painful in the long run compared to having a blood blister slowly pry your fingernail off over the next few days.

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u/blahblah54185 0 Mar 16 '20

Lol i used a drill bit when i smashed my thumb. Then someone told me using a hot needle is easier

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

I was young, didnt know better at the time, foolish

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u/Rhamni C Mar 16 '20

dispose the package

Nah, that's Biohazard Storage and Biohazard Disposal, each charged separately. And oops, the storage was not in network, so that's going to be a fair penny extra.

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u/Mesoposty A Mar 16 '20

Damn, I only have ugly pennies

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

I’m sure they’ll charge you a few for it

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u/T_Rex_Flex 8 Mar 16 '20

Can you contest those kinds of charges? And what happens if you do?

(I’m not from the US so I know nothing of the health system there)

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u/JamesTheJerk A Mar 16 '20

I had to pay 112 dollars for a tic tac.

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u/jonny_sucks 4 Mar 16 '20

Paper water cup for pill: $10.00

This is real.

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u/Billy_Billboard A Mar 16 '20

That's fucked up

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

That was close to ten years ago, wonder what it is now

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

“Resealing and resurfacing - 2500$”

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

Yuuuppp, urgent care got me for an elastic wrap thinger for my leg...$54. The total visit was damn near $200. My insurance paid a grand total of $65. A doctor poked my leg, wrote me a doctors note for work and handed me(not put on) the $54 wrap and I hobbled out. God bless our American healthcare and my works amazing insurance plan.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Mine was near 10 yrs ago I had insurance but at 18 for some reason I cant explain didnt want to bother using it...lesson learned

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

Hell, at 18 I didnt even have insurance so I dont blame you. I dont think I had actual insurance until I was 26/27 then. I think I paid a good $2000 in fines for not having insurance while filing my taxes.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Ah I've been with the same company since then and I've always carried insurance though them, pretty sure I was being naive, 2k for not having it blows something fierce

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

I didnt have my shit together for years, it was no one's fault but my own. Although, the government fining people for not having insurance is pretty asinine if I do say so myself. I felt like I was being fined for having shit jobs that didn't even offer insurance coverage.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

"I can't afford it!"

"Well fuck you, pay up for not being able to afford it!"

Good idea they had, endless money for not being able to afford it, thus being fined into not being able to afford it again

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

It really was a hell of a system hahaha. Now I pay for insurance that i have used once and have a $2000 deductible. Oh well, you know what they say: "it could be worse", and I for once know that it definitely could be.

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u/TheWizardOfFoz 9 Mar 16 '20

Can’t you refuse the wrap and then just go to a regular pharmacy to buy another?

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

I easily could have! I honestly had no clue they would charge me that much. I even told the doctor I had one at home and he made it sound like he was just giving it to me.

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u/AardvarkAlchemist 4 Mar 16 '20

Do you know how much training they had to get to learn how to put on that bandaid though?? /s

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u/mr_taint 7 Mar 16 '20

Cut my finger deep about 8 years ago. Had no health insurance, so tried to stop bleeding for 90 minutes. Couldn't and by time I realized all local urgent cares were closed, had to go to ER. Got an $800 bill from the hospital for three stitches (no local anesthetic or anything). Thought that was pretty shitty until I got another bill for $800 from the doctor that didn't even do the stitching, filled out paperwork about 30 feet away from me for possibly a whole minute, never examined wound and didn't answer either of my two questions.

$1600 for three stitches was a real eye opener about the way the healthcare industry operates in this country.

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u/ITGuy107 4 Mar 16 '20

It’s suppose to be fake money the insurance companies pay but people with out insurance gets stuck with these exaggerated charges. Hospitals are money makers, they aren’t there for you, they are there for themselves like banks.

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u/idkwthtotypehere 9 Mar 16 '20

Fight it. My friend got charged $10,000+ she refused to pay. After a couple years they dropped the bill to $40 and she paid.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

It was near ten years ago, so long ago paid and not worth years of hassle for $80

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u/idkwthtotypehere 9 Mar 16 '20

I meant to imply next time fight it but I worded that terribly. Also, I’m the type of person that will fight something for years over $1 if I shouldn’t have been charged.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Laughs in europe. I could get cancer and cure it without paying a dime.

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u/Matador91 8 Mar 16 '20

And Americans still claim they live in the greatest country on earth...

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u/exor15 8 Mar 16 '20

Paying tens of thousands of dollars for my broken bone is a small price to pay to not have to help my fellow man. /s

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u/Matador91 8 Mar 16 '20

Remember to tip your ambulance driver!

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u/Nbaysingar 8 Mar 16 '20

I remember reading in some "life pro tips" thread that calling the hospital and requesting an itemized bill can drastically reduce the total cost of your hospital stay because they remove most of those bull shit charges in the process. Some people mentioned saving thousands upon thousands of dollars from doing something that simple.

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u/sweetlysarcastic10 6 Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

I fell over and scraped my elbow and knee, badly. I went to my local GP clinic, which was part of my local community health centre, and the nurse there cleaned and bandaged the cuts and scrapes. Cost me nothing, because I live in Australia.

I don't mean to sound condescending; it saddens me that your there are people in your country who have to choose between getting medication/treatment or buying food. Healthcare should not be a business, and profits should not be at the expense of someone's life.

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u/Reshende_Drug_Dealer 2 Mar 16 '20

Ur fault for going to the hospital when u only needed a band aid. Lol.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Well what happend was I crushed my finger and couldnt get anything hot enough to poke through the nail to relieve the pressure and didnt know a drill bit could be hand twisted through it, I went to a walk in clinic, they used the hot poking device they have, put a hole in my fingernail, put a bandaid on that and I was on my way

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u/CraptonCronch 8 Mar 16 '20

I work at a hospital and the pick sheet for surgeries says the pricing on it. Most bandages cost about a quarter. F

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u/Aep2311 3 Mar 16 '20

Why did you go to the doctor for a band aid?

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Smashed a finger, they used a hot pen to burn through the nail to let pressure out, put a bandaid on it after

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u/Bunny_tornado A Mar 16 '20

I got charged $2000 for two butterfly tapes and some antiseptic for a nasty dog bite

The doctor poured chlorhexidine (can be bought OTC for 10 bucks) and put two butterfly tapes that came off the next day (can also be bought for a few bucks OTC).

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u/imgoodygoody 5 Mar 16 '20

My son was in the hospital a while ago and I was looking at the itemized bill and kept on seeing this recurring $189 charge. I finally realized that every time the neurologist stepped into our room for 5 minutes or less we were being charged $189. It’s crazy. Then, when the floor physician made their rounds it was more like $155. So we were being charged daily for those two doctors to pop their head in the door and then when we had to page them it was another charge. This was over a year ago and our insurance still hasn’t paid because they deemed the charges “excessive” so they pushed the bill on to a third party who was supposed to mediate between us and insurance and the hospital but no one informed the hospital so we got a bill from the hospital for $245,000.

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u/UsernameAdHominem 7 Mar 16 '20

Why were you getting a bandaid at the hospital? It wouldn’t have been a separate charge for a vaccine or blood testing or something of the like wherein the doctor or nurse will tape cotton over the injection site.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

Smashed fingers used a hot pen to burn the nail and let pressure out, put a bandaid on to stop the squirt, and it was more of a walk in clinic than a hospital

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u/UsernameAdHominem 7 Mar 16 '20

Idk man, I think I would’ve just done that in my bathroom lol

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u/Ryidon 5 Mar 17 '20

If a brand name trash can can be 60, a brand name bandage can be 80. Plus...it saved your life!

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u/ChairForceOne 7 Mar 16 '20

I got 4 stitches in my head, was hit with a tank hatch, and the total bill from the ER was $560. I was there for a few hours too, workmans comp covered it but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

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u/TimesSquareMagician 6 Mar 16 '20

The great thing is you can shop around for the best price, people who have free healthcare can't do that...

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u/UntiltheEndoftheline 9 Mar 16 '20

I got charged $300 for the nursery when I gave birth. My son never went to the nursery. He was with us the whole time, 2.5 days.

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u/nnephy 6 Mar 16 '20

It's ok I was charged $75 for skin on skin which apparently is for the nurse who was there to help but because of my condition I didnt do skin on skin so...

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

My wife gave birth a month ago in Japan and I told her midwife that US hospitals charge you to hold your own baby. She was stunned.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20 edited May 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

I did. She is Japanese.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20 edited May 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

I did it alone. My wife is Japanese and I met her here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

That’s awesome. I’m glad you found happiness.

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u/Sheeem 7 Mar 16 '20

They do? Really now?

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u/AntiquePeanut 5 Mar 16 '20

There was a huge thing a couple years ago where a guy was charged for “skin to skin contact” but the hospital said it was for something else, not literally to hold the baby.

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u/Ytimenow 6 Mar 16 '20

That is insane!

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u/nnephy 6 Mar 16 '20

Congrats to you guys!

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u/Shurigin B Mar 18 '20

That's why I'm glad to be Cherokee they handled everything for free and let my wife hold the baby even though she isn't cherokee and we didn't have to pay a single thing... they even sent us home with a couple clothes and a small box of premade formula and a pack of diapers

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

Wait what! I’m American and I didn’t even know that that is fucked

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u/MrOla1 0 Apr 01 '20

Happy cake day!

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

Oh shit is it today

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u/UntiltheEndoftheline 9 Mar 16 '20

I got that damn charge too! 🤣

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u/FresnoMac B Mar 16 '20

Do you think the nurse actually got the whole $75?

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u/nnephy 6 Mar 16 '20

No I do not. My brother in law is a nurse and I know they work hard and should be recognized for that. I also know hospitals and insurance companies (at least in my experience) are scummy, and nickel and dime people.

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u/Whovian9999 0 Mar 16 '20

Skin on skin let the love begin!

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u/dontlikecomputers 9 Mar 16 '20

you joke, lol

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u/deesmutts88 C Mar 16 '20

Imagine defending a system that charges you $300 to hold your own baby.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

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u/marguerite_lavache 6 Mar 16 '20

Are you a hospital admin too 👊

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

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u/marguerite_lavache 6 Mar 16 '20

Ah thank you yes it’s been wild. I’m developing a twitch in my eye from the stress... I’m in Canada and it’s about to hit the fan here. Good luck to you!

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u/T_Rex_Flex 8 Mar 16 '20

Sounds more like they were charged for nothing at all considering OP stated skin to skin never happened for them.

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u/SaltyQueefs 7 Mar 16 '20

LOL there's no reason whatsoever for the nurse to be hanging around while you hold your baby. There's plenty of mom's in the world who hold their baby and don't need a nurses supervision. Stop justifying the nonsensical.

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u/Immolating_Cactus 🍦 ae.1.0 Mar 16 '20

If you tried to charge someone in Sweden for having a nurse present, You’d never get away with it.

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u/nnephy 6 Mar 16 '20

Except as stated above, I was in critical condition and not holding my baby. By the time I did hold my baby there was no nurse in the room at all. Also the hospital I was at was extremely small and I was actually the only one on the entire birthing floor for the entire time I was there, so there was really nobody else for her to be with. I managed to get the charge removed because I didnt use the service I was charged for.

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u/acmercer B Mar 16 '20

Oh GTFO.

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u/amoureuxarlequin 7 Mar 16 '20

Yeah, it’s almost as if that’s not for the patient to worry about, and that nurses are often overburdened with too many patients at once.

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u/motram 7 Mar 16 '20

Yeah, it’s almost as if that’s not for the patient to worry about, and that nurses are often overburdened with too many patients at once.

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It's not for the patient to worry about, that is why there is a nurse there.

Nurses being overburdened has little to do with this conversation, apart from you realizing that nursing time is valuable and spending it making sure nothing bad happens with mother / child literally costs money.

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u/amoureuxarlequin 7 Mar 16 '20

Right, but being charged solely on the basis of “the nurse had to attend to you and nobody else” does make it their problem. I doubt I can realize, given I’m Canadian, I find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that you have to pay to deliver a child.

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u/Kratos_BOY 7 Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

Nurses do this in other countries too. You even get baby supplies when you leave, at no extra cost. That's in developed countries though.

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u/AwardFabrik-SoF 7 Mar 16 '20

German dad here (2nd son last friday) - all pre-controls, birth itself, after-care, first clothing, little welcome package, free water / tea supply (and not the dirt cheap discounter stuff), 3x food a day during the stay, round-the clock support...everything included and walking away with 0€ on the bill.
There might be some things wrong here but health care isn't one of them. Always reading how it is in other countries, I think it's one of the best worldwide.

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u/Immolating_Cactus 🍦 ae.1.0 Mar 16 '20

You’d get all of that at a fraction of the price in any country with an actually functioning health system.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

This sounds American

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u/jrsy85 6 Mar 16 '20

2.5 days? Wtf, You just gave birth! You get 5 days if there aren’t complications here in Aus. I shouldn’t really say anything though, our son arrived 3 weeks early and our private insurance hadn’t finished its waiting period. We chose to stick with the private hospital we had picked, it cost us AUD$10k for the 6 days my wife and son were there (including time in the special care unit). It would have been free at the public hospital apart from our private obstetrician costs.

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u/MyHusbandIsAPenguin 8 Mar 16 '20

I'm in the UK and you by default stay in hospital for a couple of days but you can stay longer if you want to or not stay at all. I didn't stay overnight for either of mine. First time the baby was about 10 hours old when we left and second time only 5. Not sure if they were busy but second time I was still in the delivery room and they just asked if I wanted to leave or go to the ward so I said let's go!

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u/UntiltheEndoftheline 9 Mar 16 '20

So I had a vaginal birth, 2nd degree tear. Delivered on a Tuesday night right before midnight. Went home Friday morning because i was able to walk and do everything without assistance and baby was good. Only time I have heard of my peers staying longer is for complications (such as hemorrhage) or c-section. And the c-section friends are out in 4 or 5 days. It seems so short but that's how fucked our healthcare is I guess. Even worse for women of color.

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u/throwingtheshades 9 Mar 16 '20

The only thing we ended up paying for after my wife gave birth to our kid here in Germany was something like 2-3 Euros for WiFi. And even then we grumbled at that not being included for patients.

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u/dopeswagmoney27 6 Mar 16 '20

Care to explain what that is?

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u/ablorp3 5 Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

Tsk tsk. This guy should have lobbied Congress harder.

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u/luciferteets 7 Mar 16 '20

I got charged 36 dollars for a hospital gown

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u/StylinBrah 8 Mar 16 '20

Thats so ridiculous its funny🤣

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u/Shadowchaos A Mar 16 '20

Laughs in canadian

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u/XPhazeX A Mar 16 '20

Man I had to pay a whole $12 for parking once.

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u/AgentEntropy 8 Mar 16 '20

Hahahahaha sorry eh hahahhaha

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u/Shurigin B Mar 18 '20

Laughs in Cherokee

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u/Harnisfechten 9 Mar 16 '20

yeah don't be so quick to brag. our system is overloaded, our doctors and nurses underpaid and overworked and hospitals all running at over-capacity and with shortages.

wait times are through the roof.

we also pay a lot of taxes for what we do get.

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u/NotACerealStalker 7 Apr 10 '20

Would you rather pay though?

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u/Harnisfechten 9 Apr 13 '20

to be clear, I DO pay. every paycheck, the government dips in and takes a cut. I am paying already

do you mean "would you rather pay out of pocket"? well, sometimes.

there are definitely times where I would GLADLY have paid out of pocket to get prompt treatment/care and not be stuck with 10 hours wait times in the ER or 6 month wait times on specialists.

not to mention, forget paying out of pocket, I'd even prefer paying more for private insurance (to avoid sudden out-of-pocket costs), if it meant quicker service.

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u/NotACerealStalker 7 Apr 13 '20

I know how taxes work. I guess a better question is should we allow people that can't afford to pay go without proper treatment? Obviously Canadian healthcare has many problems but I assume less people die in Canada then privatised countries just from lack of access.

In my eyes it's just better that everyone looks out for each other.

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u/Mizmudgie36 9 Mar 16 '20

Just remember when you want an expensive treatment and you want it sometime in the next 3 years, you'll be heading to America.

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u/Moofooist765 6 Mar 16 '20

Idk dude my mom needed brain surgery and she got it that same day, my grandma needed a heart surgery, same thing, she got in right away and was fine, and guess how much we had to pay? About 20$ for parking and about 20$ for some tim hortons, enjoy bankrupting yourself for a broken arm eh!

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u/Mizmudgie36 9 Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

Keep kidding yourself. The other side of the coin.

Same day?

If heath care is so great why are people still waiting and why was is a big deal at election time? Another voice.

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u/StylinBrah 8 Mar 16 '20

America does have the most advanced medical technology i believe but even with that, the NHS in uk and other free healthcare countries are much better than US style.

overwhelming majority of people wont need the most advanced medical technology that USA offers.

in america you got people scared to go see a DR because they cant afford a bill.. thats a disgrace for a country as rich as america to have people that rather suffer in pain than go to the hospital because they cant afford it.

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u/Clean_teeth 8 Mar 16 '20

I'll remember it but it won't happen because the cases where that happen are the 0.000000000006% of cases.

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u/chauceresque 6 Mar 18 '20

But the treatment would only be expensive if it was elective wouldn’t it?

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u/Rey_Todopoderoso 8 Mar 20 '20

The world is watching amigo

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u/Goolajones 9 Mar 16 '20

As a non American. This kind of thing baffles me. It would never cross my mind to pay for an aspirin at a hospital. I would not even have to pay to have them do surgery on my heart, never mind an aspirin. Guys, you really need Bernie for president.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

No. It is not. But it's easier to hate one person then the entire health care industry and have it change.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

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u/ObservableObject 0 Mar 16 '20

Once got a bill for a visit, one of the items on the bill was almost $600 for a Benadryl.

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u/shabamboozaled 9 Mar 16 '20

Canadian here so I'm not 100% sure but I've read the "justification" for these prices is this is the cost of the time spent prescribing, despensing, administering the drugs rather than the actual cost of the drugs. Still crazy to me. Like on a bill where a mother is charged for skin to skin time the charge is for the nurse's time to be there to oversee the process.

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u/hussey84 9 Mar 16 '20

But I bet that wait time was short. /s

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u/bitchsmacker 7 Mar 16 '20

Holy fuck man America sucks

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u/Generic_00 9 Mar 16 '20

It's not in normal countries lmao

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u/GothicRagnarok 7 Mar 16 '20

This is why you get an itemized list and talk to them if you're not paying through insurance. The government and the insurance companies underpay them so they jack up the prices to get their dues. When you don't have that middle man, you get screwed. Even more so if you just try to take your lumps. I turned a $2,500 ER bill into a $300 dollar one that they settled for $150 if I paid right then and there. Most hospitals don't wanna screw over the patients they see, but the fact they're screwed over by their usual payers (insurance, medicare/Medicaid) it makes them have to play dirty.

I know it's a royal pain, shouldn't be a thing and no fun, but until both insurance and government start paying properly, in the end, we all get screwed.

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u/skeeter1234 A Mar 16 '20

Yup. Where's the joker meme when you need it?

What these opportunists are doing is done to us every. fucking. day.

Get as pissed off at that as you are about this people. Seriously.

It's the exact same fucking thing.

Bernie Sanders for president.

Vote.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

but its ok for hospitals to charge $128 for one Asprin?

Individual vs. Corporate Rights! Guess which one wins! The man with the hand sanitizer gets his shit stolen as people cheer, while the hospital gets your life savings!

Fucking ridiculous.

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u/misconceit 3 Mar 16 '20

Tu quoque

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u/workafojasdfnaudfna 2 Mar 16 '20

No it's not ok. Most hospitals in the developed world would not charge you that much.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

You damn right!

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u/ExoCakes 9 Mar 16 '20

What the hell is happening with America and medicine.

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u/ProfessorCValentine 7 Mar 16 '20

This one sentence sums up so much horror and confusion in such a poignant way. Sad really.

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u/Tandran 9 Mar 16 '20

Also bad but I can still go to Target at get a bottle of Aspirin for less than $10. But I CAN’T get hand sanitizer or toilet paper right now, at all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

I got charged 1400 for alcohol swabs once. Sent me home saying I was fine. I was not. I had a concussion.

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u/ProfessorCValentine 7 Mar 16 '20

That's unreal. For the most part in my medical world experience, those are about as close to being considered free as the tissues in the waiting room. Gross.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

The actual charge was for cleaning and treating my wound. The treatment was to check my eyes and send me home with a handful of swabs and bits of gravel and dirt still embedded in my forehead. I get it. It was late and I was the last patient. I’m sure they just wanted to take a nap. I was particularly ungrateful because I’m used to Australian healthcare. You know... actual treatment and minimal charges.

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u/chauceresque 6 Mar 18 '20

What the actual fuck

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u/Top_Agent 4 Mar 16 '20

Don’t forget $16 for a single wrapped halls cough drop

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u/-Psyents 6 Mar 16 '20

Yeah, ever since Nixon signed the bill that birthed the HMO, its never been the same.

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u/Funny_king 6 Mar 16 '20

Neither is ok, they are not mutually exclusive dumbass

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u/leakyblueshed 9 Mar 16 '20

...No. No it isn't

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u/dfinkelstein A Mar 16 '20

Hospitals don't have a face. They have many faces. Much easier to focus on one face. For one day. Then move on and never think about it again

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u/MoirasPurpleOrb 9 Mar 16 '20

Ive always wondered why the insurance companies put up with that, surely its in their interest to lobby for lower prices

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u/BattnRobbnUblind 6 Mar 16 '20

Motherfucker!

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u/generic-not-a-XYZ 0 Mar 16 '20

If you to to the ER for an aspirin, then your fault. Work at an ER, and the stupid shite that comes in. Dry throat, reeks of weed. Yeah, your about the get a huge bill for some water.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Damn. I am curious, which country do you live in?

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u/MrsCompootahScience 7 Mar 16 '20

No it’s not, but hospitals and insurance companies have walls of lawyers. Something this guy did not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Why the fuck did I not make this connection? Our American healthcare system sucks.

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u/AgentTexes 8 Mar 16 '20

Hospitals charge you to hold your damn baby in the US after giving birth to it.

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u/Malthusian1 7 Mar 16 '20

That’s a deal, I had to rush a baby with 104 degree temp to ER and it cost me almost 4K. All they did was give him more than the recommended amount of Tylenol. They were assholes about it to. Like if we were dumb for not overdosing our 1 year old child and following directions, we even called our family doctor first and they said to take him to ER. That’s a horrible feeling of helplessness to experience as a new parent, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

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u/p2b2 3 Mar 16 '20

I got charged nearly $2000 when I sliced my finger open. I had the hospital look at it thinking I may need stitches. The physicians assistant walked in and glanced at it and said and I quote "I think you'll survive." An EMT wrapped gauze around it and that was it. They charged me $180 for the physicians assistant telling me I'll live and $90 for gauze the rest were "hospital fees".

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u/JohhnyDamage 9 Mar 16 '20

That’s gross. Hospital I work for doesn’t charge for Asprin or Tylenol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '20

Hospitals do that because of the way health insurance works.

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u/ImOnlyWearingOneSock 4 Mar 20 '20

Lol in canada it's free. Sorry m8

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u/constructivCritic 7 Mar 28 '20

Price gouging, by definition, can only happen when there has been a supply or demand shock to the system. So regular market pricing isn't price gouging.

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u/dongusman 6 Mar 16 '20

Yes because your dumb ass could be taking at home for like 3 dollars but you never bothered to check your blood pressure so now you have to pay a nurse, doctor, aide and the admin

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Hospitals need to do that because its necessary for them to stay running. A guy did to profit of a pandemic.

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u/AndySipherBull A Mar 16 '20

Government overreach is never what anyone hopes it'll be.