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Privatized Healthcare is so awesome (lemmy.ml)
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[-] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's my American Healthcare story:

  • snap finger bone, go to urgent care to get splint
  • pay 50ish dollars that day
  • 2 months later, get bill for 200 dollars
  • ahah! everyone says to ask for an itemized bill! do that
  • get itemized bill back that claims the 200 charge is for 'visiting with a doctor with knowledge of medical history' (paraphrasing)
  • contest charge because I did not see a doctor, and splinting a snapped finger does not require any fucking context at all
  • get runaround for 2 months, while being threatened with late fees
  • finally they say they will adjust the bill
  • get new bill for $201, 'for a visit that did not include a doctor' (no fucking joke)

welcome the USA, where healthcare operations are scams

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-based-nextcare-inc-pay-us-10-million-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/urgent-care-provider-convicted-health-care-fraud-and-ordered-pay-125-million

(these are just 2 of the scams in my state, thanks to shell companies when one is shut, another opens)

edit: and in case anyone thinks I paid that shit, I didn't. I sent them a polite version of a 'fuck you' reply. Then covid hit and I never heard from them again.

[-] Rengoku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile, I was hospitalized due to covid and bronchitis combo, paid less than 20 dollars because Government covered all my ass.

And I am in a third world country.

[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Mine was when I cut the tip of my finger off... Bottle broke and sliced my middle finger from the middle of the nail down to the corner. Only thing holding it on was the nail itself. I go to urgent care because it's closer than the hospital. The doc soaks it in iodine and alcohol, checks for glass, then says he can stitch or glue it. He opts for glue. I get a wrap and splint to protect it, "keep it dry and unwrap it in a few weeks to make sure it took." Couple weeks go by and I get a bill. $8,000 for superglue and a bandage! A little less than 1/4 of what I made in a year at the time. Best part? "Payment in full is expected one month from receipt."

Fucking greedy bastards...

[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile in austria even the dentist is covered

[-] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The UK used to have that. This year, 98-99% of NHS dentists shut down or became private. Conservatives, eh?

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