Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized after experiencing 'flu-like symptoms' (abcnews.go.com)

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[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving.

How absolutely splendid for him. Pretty neat to be covered by quality healthcare at the expense of the taxpayers, I should imagine. Even better to be wealthy enough to go beyond even that.

Meanwhile I am still fighting my insurance to cover a $1k blood draw that is absolutely covered by my shit coverage. Fuck him. Fuck the insurance companies and fuck the elected officials that consistently battle the American people at the behest of their financiers.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

The fuck it costs 1000 dollars to get some blood drawn? What the fuck is happening in America.

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It was a lot of tests, to be fair, and the funny thing is that it wasn’t all of it. There was another $130 charge for some other tests that they did end up covering - but not without appealing. It wasn’t a standard full panel blood test that I had to get at my age (48) due to family history. But regardless, my Dr ordered it and it’s goddamned covered.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I just had my annual exam where they did a full blood panel, an EKG, urine panel and it didn't cost me anything.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

The USA is a dozen people standing in a fully stocked supermarket with one guy saying, “I guess there’s nothing left- we’ll have to kill and eat each other,” while the other 11 quietly grumble about it but don’t dare do anything that might appear threatening. Someone will be along to save them, surely.

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I went to the urgent care (and was unfortunately referred to emergency care in the same building) for some chest pain a few weeks ago. Here's some of my bill (luckily most should be covered by insurance, we'll see if they give me trouble)

Blood draw/lab test: $446.63
Plasma test: $158.07
Chest x-ray: $664.66
"Emergency services" or in other words, the bill for getting transfered from urgent care to emergency: $3,987.00
ECG: $1,024.94

All of that, just for them to tell me that I was fine and to just rest. $6,295.29 for an hour long visit. If I didn't have insurance, I wouldn't be able to afford that and would have just preferred whatever was going to happen to me.

Meanwhile the fucking shitty human beings in Congress get free universal healthcare.

[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was in an accident a few years back and broke my orbital floor, sphenoid, and ended up with pneumocephalus. I was there for about 32 hours total and ended up with a 150k bill. 65k of that was imaging.

this country is so fucking broken. imagine even being able to go to the hospital for "flu like symptoms", most of us would never do that cause we know it'd be a 10k bill.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

What in the everloving fuck. I had some kinda specific symptoms one weekend, I called the doc on Monday, he said come in this afternoon (must've been a bit worried, getting an appointment normally takes longer, I don't want to misrepresent this).

I went in, we had a chat, he said come back tomorrow for a blood test. I dutifully went in for the test and went home. 8PM that night I got a call from an out of hours doctor, they said get yourself to A&E (emergency room). More bloods taken, I was triaged and admitted (which took about 36hrs - was a heavy time, I wasn't super urgent).

Spent the next 5 weeks in hospital, I now have a life long condition which necessitates a lot of pills that I've been taking for a few years now.

Total out of pocket cost £0.

People still try to claim the US system is superior.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is what they mean when they say "US spends more in healthcare than rest of the world combined"

Artificially inflated prices to show you're spending 100x more for the same procedure/medicine than the rest of the world.

But hey, big numbers always means good, right?

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

True Cost of US Healthcare Shocks the British Public:

https://youtu.be/Kll-yYQwmuM

[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I hope he dies a slow, agonizing death for the pain he has caused millions.

Fuck. Him.

Burn in hell.

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Is the flu okay?

[-] SippyCup@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You ever see Akira?

He has absorbed it, and added it's power to his.

[-] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Hope he dies, scared, alone, clawing for breath.

[-] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Don't. Don't give me hope.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I hope he's scared and in lots of pain

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bastard. Hope he rots.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago

If we're lucky it'll progress to total organ failure.

[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I hope soon he experiences "dead-like" symptoms.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

When will it upgrade to death-like symptoms?

[-] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Prayer to god

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't worry.

He'll receive the best healthcare available that millions of other Americans don't have access to and he won't lose his job or have to ask his fellow employees to donate sick hours to him.

All after spending an entire career teaching other Republicans how to subvert our democracy.

Death cannot come soon enough to this traitor.

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