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That's a shitty bill. It's also insane that US doctors and hospitals aren't required to post prices, keep prices reasonably within an allowed range, and are allowed to price gouge customers for however much they want without limit. In Redding CA, I ran across a woman with a nasal infusion pump tube taped to her face in a coffee shop. She was hurriedly collecting paperwork for a hearing across the street. It turns out she was preparing to go through bankruptcy proceedings while she was dying from incurable Stage IV cancer. That the doctors and hospitals were vultures picking her life apart for money while she was dying but still alive and making her end-of-life as miserable as possible was adding insult to injury. Some hippocratic oath. More like hypocritical chisels out to monetize misery. So when someone is out of money and dying in America, they are treated like criminals with court proceedings. At their hearing, they get a chance to justify their existence requires clothes, transportation, and housing while everything else goes to creditors. |
Her medical costs ended up bankrupting her. That was where the scales fell from my eyes and I learned that what we're taught about the purpose of insurance (to protect us in the case of a catastrophic expense) is just pure BS.