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The total bill was just under $6,600. Needless to say, we were a little startled!
Other posters are correct, the insurance company will probably pay about $2,000, and if you were paying it yourself, with cash, they would immediately deduct about 1/2 giving you a true bill of $3,300
I don't think we need any "reforming" of our laws, we do however, need to have corporations, including those that provide insurance and healthcare, to be subject to something other than "market driven principles". The very idea that healthcare can be dispensed in a manner consistent with profit driven corporate goals is crazy, anyone who has worked in the modern corporation knows the quality of the product or service will ultimately go down thanks to the incessant cost cutting that now characterizes the American business model.
If the American populace isn't pissed by now they just aren't getting the picture. We have come to believe the corporate lie that as a nation we'd be in a heap of trouble without them, man, we're in a heap of trouble BECAUSE of them. In my opinion, the only salvageable portion of our economy is long gone, we are now stuck, waiting for the other shoe to drop. More bad economic news means more unemployment, more machines working means more unemployment, the entire capitalistic premise is at odds with the nations workers, when your medical insurance runs out, you'll be understanding of the fact that you,are not, too big to be failed.........
UMC estimates 114.3 million last yr.
I also said others that dont pay, so overall yes this thread is an excuse to gripe about those that use the ER with no intention or means to pay their bill.
Did you start this thread? That's odd, I thought it was Omaha Rocks.
I thought I would go ahead and post the total of my bill, $33,642.00. BC/BS paid $1,640.00 and I had to pay $300.00, total $1,940.00. This is about the same as a great cruise with a hundred times better service. If I had not have had insurance, we would have been up a creek.
WTF? ARe you kidding me?
I just had a total thyroidectomy and spent more than 24 hours, but less than 48 hours at UCSF medical center in San Francisco....and it cost me:
hospital bill only:
$20,585
my surgeon charged:
$3500
My anesthesiologist:
$2200
Pathologist:
$688.00
for a grand total (not including pre-op bill) of $26,973
How the heck is yours way more than mine? I don't get it.
Oh and cost IS regulated. By the market, medicare and medicaid will only pay a certain amount. Period.
So you're admitting that medicare (the gov't) , is the one that is causing prices to be higher for everyone else that does not have medicare.
Thank you for finally being honest.
The problem isn't that too many people don't have insurance/medicare... it's that too many people do. (have medicare and the wrong type of "insurance")
The only insurance a person should get is the catastrophic type. The ones that have large deductibles but are cheap. Any other insurance plan is not really insurance, but rather a prepaid service card.
LOL .. i miss bob barker.. the man was good at his job
I love drew carey, the person and guy from "the drew carey show"... I however, don't think he's very good at hosting the price is right... sadly enough
The total bill was just under $6,600. Needless to say, we were a little startled!
How much did your insurance actually pay of that bill? How much did you pay?
Still like providing healthcare for the uninsured?
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