Hospitals in the US have charged thousands of dollars for "Nasal therapy" which was only giving Kleenex facial tissue.

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Even in 2007, a bandaid at a place that I worked was $20.

All that fucking money they got for Covid relief was spent monopolizing the hospital systems and eating small physician groups too. Meanwhile taking on a skeleton crew and overworking staff. One of ours didn't have cleaning crew and had a massive blood spill they didn't bother to clean for weeks. So headsup: if you live in the US, some of the most expensive hospitals out there are clumping together to fuck you over and screw up insurance pricing yet again.

[–]crackerjack 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i just crapped my pants, and all you can do is piss and moan about bandaids.

troll.

[–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

no joke.. they tried to charge my friend $600 for a stainless steel bowl

upon pointing it out they immediately rescinded..

the criminal that doesn't get away with it is still a criminal

hospitals are literally money making machines that return little

[–]crackerjack 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

for sale: one semi rusty stainless steel bedpan.

condition: used

price: $4,856.00

[–]crackerjack 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i get medicaid coverage. whoopee. only the most crap doctors even accept it.. I tried to setup an appointment with doctor that had "we accept medicaid" in his advertisement, but his receptionist said that they charge a $1600.00 per year membership fee.

when i need medical care, i now go to what used to be a free clinic.

when the clinic asks me if i have been tested for covid, i just say "oh yeah... i got tested in hong kong.."

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We need price transparency laws. Ones that reveal exactly how much the insurance companies actually pay too, because the hospitals always claim that their extortionate pricing is only a response to insurance companies refusing to pay. There is no way to know who is lying.

There are a lot of problems with our medical industry, but there are also a lot of problems with socialized medicine. The problem is that the socialist are very powerful and always capture any movement that tries to fix the medial industry in order to direct it to their end goal. We need to clearly and unequivocally reject socialism in order to ever be able to implement any kind of real improvement.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well I think the medical system in the US is really messed up and the companies related to the medical industry want to keep it that way. I think this covers up some of its unfair policies. Hospitals in the US have charged thousands of dollars for simple therapies. I think the whole medical industry is messed up all by itself, all thanks to the Rockefellers. Most health problems originate because of a bad diet and poor health habits, but most people end up become addicts to their drugs that are actually Placebos for the most part.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

everything around hospitals screams scam

[–]crackerjack 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

everything in our current administration is intended to turn our society into a major clusterfuck, the divided are easy to conquer.

I am so happy that my life is almost over, because the future looks very dim for the entire world.

[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Still less of a ripoff than therapy therapy.