My son was born a Preemie in 1980.
Spent his first month in a neonatal intensive care unit.
We paid every dime of the $12K bill out of our pockets.
I doubt many could afford to pay a single days worth today. I spent 3 days in ICU in 2015 for a stroke and the bill was over $20K and it was merely for observation.
If they can get big money from insured patients, then they’ll charge whatever the heck they want for anyone and everyone. Costs of goods and services are off balance. No insurance payments from anyone, and naturally the costs will go down.
Procrastination is a feature in politics. A businessman who doesn’t sleep, understands all of this from an economic perspective and has seen and heard about solutions for years can easily go in and say, let’s do it this way. He doesn’t have to procrastinate since he isn’t worried about what a poll says depending on which way the wind blows.
Everything Trump is doing has already been through hundreds of iterations. The only problem has been and will always be in politics, what do the polls say?
Just this past August, I had to go to the ER, bad dizzy spell. I was there for less than 24 hours even though I stayed overnight. The bill for hospital, tests and doctors is over $22K. Did not have coverage, yay! Did not qualify for any state assistance but had to apply and be rejected in order to then apply through the hospital itself for a catastrophic discount, which I did get approved for. That dropped the hospital portion of the bill, $17K+, down to $11K+, not that I have either growing on the trees in my yard.
The woman I dealt with said to send my catastrophic approval letter to the rest of the bills and they might write them off. Haven’t done it as of yet, life got in the way when my husband had 2 mini-strokes in early December. Luckily we got our coverage back December 1st, but it will probably be gone again February 28th of this year. Husband is plagued with lay offs from his union tile job and you have to work X amount of hours to maintain coverage. We had no coverage for 9 months of last year..hoping Trump’s Executive Order is retroactive for last years insane O’Shitcare fines, $695 PER PERSON, PER MONTH!