That's rough, I'm sorry to hear that. It isn't right. As someone that has had a number of ambulance trips thanks to anxiety the past few years, I can't imagine having to worry about finances in each case and how that would spiral more than it already did. It's fallen back this year thankfully, and I hope the same for yourself and that your son's health issues placate as best they can. Genuine well-wishes for 2020.Only reason I know is because I suffer from chronic anxiety (lots of ER visits) and my son has had numerous health issues (ambulances, specialists, hospital stays). Let's just say that I am very poor now.
because we don't know anything else
Until it's too late then you get bankrupt because poor people couldn't afford to do a neccessary check up
it's just a bit distressing that it's significantly cheaper to buy an instrument of death in the US than it is to bring new life into it
But Americans have Freedom, only in America and the rest of the world is jelly.
If the Tories win the election and sell the NHS to Trump, I'm moving to Ireland.
Worth mentioning most people who work pay a National insurance tax in their wages, it is just it goes into general taxation, so yes it is free at the point of care, but we technically pay for it
mainly because all the guns
Is this something they're actually planning on doing?
Because there should be some South Korea style riots if the UK healthcare system gets sold off to American profiteering corporations.
Is this something they're actually planning on doing?
Because there should be some South Korea style riots if the UK healthcare system gets sold off to American profiteering corporations.
You're pretty much expected to ask for a smaller bill and they'll accommodate you, it's so stupid. Most people don't end up being charged the full amount, as for what happens if what's left can't be paid, I'm not sure, probably some goes to collections and some is forgiven.I don't understand how this works in practice. E.g. if a woman from a low-income or poverty background goes to the maternity ward to have her baby, does she get a 10.000 $ bill afterwards? How is she supposed to pay that, and what if she can't? Are there hospitals where you can have your baby for free or a smaller fee?
Americans are fantastic at adapting.
It's worse than that. They do a fucking credit check before they send an ambulance. If your credit score isn't good, no ambulance.
It's monstrous.
Primarily because half the country thinks the way healthcare works currently is fine or even good.
A woman in that position would presumably be on Medicaid, which would act like a normal insurance company and take on the bill.I don't understand how this works in practice. E.g. if a woman from a low-income or poverty background goes to the maternity ward to have her baby, does she get a 10.000 $ bill afterwards? How is she supposed to pay that, and what if she can't? Are there hospitals where you can have your baby for free or a smaller fee?
Worth mentioning most people who work pay a National insurance tax in their wages, it is just it goes into general taxation, so yes it is free at the point of care, but we technically pay for it
Primarily because half the country thinks the way healthcare works currently is fine or even good.
I had an ER visit earlier this year and I kept waiting for a big ass bill to show up. Thankfully, my job has really good insurance, but it really shouldn't depend on that.
A woman in that position would presumably be on Medicaid, which would act like a normal insurance company and take on the bill.
some hospitals will do the bare minimum to help get you stabilized and then refuse to do anymore because you have no way to pay.What if you're shot in the street and someone else calls? Do they take you to hospital and then thrust the bill in your face as soon as you're stable?
That's pretty gross if so.
You've never actually stepped foot in a
It's worse than that. They do a fucking credit check before they send an ambulance. If your credit score isn't good, no ambulance.
It's monstrous.
What if you're shot in the street and someone else calls? Do they take you to hospital and then thrust the bill in your face as soon as you're stable?
That's pretty gross if so.
Most of us have never known anything different
Half the country is made up of uneducated misinformed morons who think everything is fine as it is.
What the f??
The victim must PAY ambulance calls?
childbirth cant cost, right?
is this a joke?
neither of these cost anything in scandinavia... in fact no doctor call cost more than 20$ regardless if it is an operation or a meeting..
Yes that is exactly what happens. When I was in high school I got into a bad car wreck and was loaded into an ambulance before I could really understand what was going on.What if you're shot in the street and someone else calls? Do they take you to hospital and then thrust the bill in your face as soon as you're stable?
That's pretty gross if so.
Doctors arent really the ones who decide this kind of stuff, afaik it's the hospital board members and admiinistrators that run hospitals like businessesHow can you even charge money for basic neonatal baby care. Like at what point are you a doctor and go, you want this baby to bond with its mother, tsk, sign here first.
I guess a doctor that thinks 2500 for an ambulance ride makes sense too.
Spot on. This election is infuriating.That inhaler cost. O_O
Tories should get wiped out for this but give people the argument, NHS or Brexit, watch the UK burn. How thick and hateful can you be. The NHS is reason alone for voting remain in another EU referendum but people can't see past their hate. Bloody boiling, how much does it cost to cure that.
Recently fucked my ankle in a way that impressed the Doctor.
Clean broke through the joint itself, bones broken around it and 2 sets of ligaments torn.
£0
- A&E Visit
- 4 X-Rays
- 1 MRI
- 1 General anaesthetic keyhole surgery
- Full foot surgery with 2 screws put in
- 2x nights in hospital
- Crutches
- Support/Compression Boot
- Numerous Doctors visits
- 40 doses of Clexane
- Upcoming surgery to take screws out
- Ongoing physiotherapy
No idea how much that would have been in the US but I am ever thankful for the NHS.
Did a google image search of "childbirth cost USA" this was one of the results
Insanity
I saw an elderly woman trip and fall on some stairs (about 6, to a tiled floor) at a Burger King food court few years back. We called the ambulance immediately and the woman literally spent her last minutes on Earth moaning in pain, and begging us not to call an ambulance because she couldn't afford it. It got there about 10 minutes after she stopped breathing anyway and I knew deep down they were likely going to bill her survivors one way or another. I felt guilty for thinking that while they carted her off.A trip to an ER is $2531 and the total service is $3390 for 8 stitches on my right pinky finger
$1191 for a 10 second doctor to tell me not to get my finger wet.
It's cheaper to not have ACA to pay my bill.
I keep sayings this. It's about profiting people who're suffering. There shouldn't be a market for this.
Yes, but we're not complacent. We're captive.Primarily because half the country thinks the way healthcare works currently is fine or even good.
Then the other hold-up is your healthcare 90% of the time is tied to your job, so if you go off on a rioting adventure and miss a shift or two of work because you got arrested, you lose your job and consequently your insurance. Not to mention that if you get injured by a cop while rioting, that's gonna be expensive to get patched up.
Basically capitalism has made people complacent.