| Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion? [message #363431] |
Wed, 14 February 2018 07:21 |
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Originally posted by: J. Clarke
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:16:45 -0600, Dave Garland
<dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/2018 8:44 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:05:31 -0600, Dave Garland
>> <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/13/2018 10:20 AM, Huge wrote:
>>>> On 2018-02-13, Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>>>> > On 2/13/2018 2:48 AM, mausg@mail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [20 lines snipped]
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>>>> >> That "meanest woman alive", whatever her name was, toured ERs looking
>>>> >> for a cheap one.
>>>> >> (Helmsley?)
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> > Good luck with that these days. They'll have you sign a paper
>>>> > guaranteeing to pay the bill, but refuse to tell you what the bill
>>>> > will be.
>>>>
>>>> It'll be wrong anyway. And come in dribs and drabs over months, possibly
>>>> years.
>>>>
>>> True, that. It did. A simple procedure resulted in bills from 4 or 5
>>> completely different organizations spread over 6 or 8 months. Just one
>>> of the reasons why American health care is the most expensive in the
>>> world.
>>
>> Three stitches and a tetanus shot--$500 from the doctor, I forget what
>> for the med, and $2000 "emergency room fee".
>>
> Yup. Of course, if you'd found the doctor on your own, it would have
> been cheaper. But you presumably didn't have the luxury of time to
> spend calling around to see who could take you and how much they'd
> charge. Some medical problems are like that.
By the time I did that I wouldn't have needed stitches. When you're
bleeding and it won't stop at 2AM making phone calls to doctors is not
an effective strategy.
> The inflated emergency room fee was probably one of the ways that
> hospital covered the cost of people who didn't have insurance, and
> couldn't pay. They are required to treat everybody who comes through
> the door.
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