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This guys posting about the healthcare system completely unaware that Henry Ford literally rewrote the medical school syllabus after bribing some schools 2mil in donations
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I am going to go write "I must be mindful of Poe's Law" on a chalkboard a few dozen times
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The thing about healthcare costs is that by having health insurance, it doesn’t matter as much how ridiculous Hospitals want to change
My surgery I had in November was pretty reasonable, $1200 for slashing my elbow open and putting my ulnar nerve back into the bone groove it was supposed to be in (it got displaced by me aggressively masterbating to the Human Centipede movie on repeat, at least that’s the story I gave friends sometimes). And the doctor repaired my carpal tunnel in my wrist by slashing open my hand in going in with a scope or something. That was $1100 So both being done on the same day + hospital fees was $3000ish. The anesthesia was like $2300ish. I had already paid 2k-3k towards my deductible earlier that year, so paying the rest of my deductible was only like $1k But if the doctor wanted to charge $50,000 for each surgery I don’t give a shit. My deductible is still 4000. That’s why I am stressing the importance of having insurance and being in your network with your procedure | ||
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Luckily for us, lots of people live at a poverty line that don't have the same luxuries we do! They're forced into a situation in which they need to stay below a certain salary or they lose their insurance! Here's the best part though! If they ever try to get a better job, if they slightly go over that salary limit, they lose that health insurance they rely on! Fun right!? Haha! That way they get to stay perpetually locked into poverty because any gradual upward momentum would cripple them! Remember, just one wink and finger guns every morning, right in the mirror at those pearly whites! | |||
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Not that there aren’t procedures that could actually run $250k, but it sounds like exaggeration just for the sake of hyperbole. So like I said, if you gonna just make stuff up, go for the gold and say the patient died too due to malpractice And yea, like I said I’d love for everyone not just the poor to get free health insurance. After all, health insurance is a human right. Oh wait it’s actually not. Regardless, I’d still like for them to get it, but the cost would be in the trillions, and I just don’t see how our government could make that work. However, I greatly respect people like you who donate every extra penny you make to those who don’t have the means to care for themselves | |||
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Last edited by unsunghero; 01-25-2022 at 11:04 PM..
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I appreciate your sympathy though, that $3k procedure sounded serious and life threatening too! I bet the tubes that went around your lungs to drain the fluid around your heart made it excruciatingly painful like it did for me! Luckily for me it was only a 7 hour surgery to shave down the valve, re-tie the tissue so that it opened and closed properly, and apply the brace to reinforce the valve! The most fun part was when I coughed too hard and opened the hole in my chest where one of the tubes was inserted while I was on powerful blood thinners and was bleeding a whole lot! Haha! Fortunately for you, if you ever had anything serious done in your life, you'd know that you don't get a single bill! You get close to 100 distinct bills for small things you have to pay for incrementally! Did I mention that even after my 7500 deductible I still ended up paying for my medication even though that should've been free after that and despite reaching out to them dozens of times they just ghosted me until I got new insurance anyways? Fun! It sounds like you're solidly middle class and don't really have to worry about anything! Keep on pushing government programs, thanks! | |||
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