“Do You Want To Know How Bad Healthcare Is In America?”: Person Shares His Experience Healthcare America
Humans are naturally pretty clumsy. No doubt all of us have stubbed a toe, knocked over a coffee cup, and then burnt our fingers taking cookies out of the oven. Sometimes we injure ourselves even worse, with cuts, bruises, and sprains. Fortunately, modern medicine is at the point where all of these injuries are quite manageable.needed some stitches, he went to the ER. There he faced a rigamarole of inordinate costs, poor communication, and unhelpful suggestions.
“Do you want to know how bad healthcare is in America? Here’s how bad it is. I get stitches, cut my finger the other day, go into the hospital, get my stitches done. No big deal, whatever. I have to wait two weeks to get them taken out. And in the meantime, I get billed for my visits. Before insurance for five stitches, $3,800. After insurance, $1,800 or 1900… excuse me, after insurance, $1,900 for five stitches for a terrible hospital visit.
“And then I wait around for a while in the ER and then I get back and I ask the nurse, ‘Hey, this is what happened. They turned me away at Urgent Care, told me to come here, that you guys would do it for free. Is that true?’ And the nurses said, ‘Let me check all that. I’m going to check with billing really fast.’ So they go check on billing. And then they say, ‘Sorry, billing says that you’ll have to pay to get these stitches removed.
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