Seems reasonable to me.
I broke a leg skiing about 30 years ago - cost $25,000 (my back pocket, no insurance and I paid every cent).
It’s a $200,000 break now.
I know a man (a Trauma Director at a hospital) who broke his neck on a trampoline at a kids birthday party.
His final bill? North of $900,000.
$21,000 in 35 minutes to save a persons life seems low...
Seems outrageous to me and like taking advantage of a bad situation. People here keep screaming for a free market solution to healthcare. It won’t work as long as this kind of thing is allowed. What are you going to do, shop for service with a bullet in you?
Medicine is priced like it is indespensible. It has been given a license to steal for profit.
securing a broken arm bone is not saving a life. Plenty of ways to stop bleeding and the person would heal and have life without all that expense. Screws etc outrageously priced as well a surgeon medical team high fees is not ok, it cannot be met by average person making payments and insurance coverage is only passing the buck to others to pay.
Good for you you paid full amount, for others it would devastate their family’s budget for many years.
Granted it would be even better if people were not shot or injured by others or themselves in the first place. You and trampoline man chose bodily risk and got yourself hurt, others walk out their door and get hurt thru no or little fault of their own. Their debt for service is not of their choosing as yours was.
Some how personal responsibility should factor into who pays what and how much.
$21,000 in 35 minutes to save a persons life seems low...
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I was thinking something similar.
And the story describes all of these procedures as though we are talking about something as simple as assembling the ingredients and then whipping up an omelette, something anyone can do with some inexpensive ingredients and equipment that has not been produced through exacting standards.
25k for a broken leg? Was it a compound fracture? Theres no way a simple break runs to those kind of numbers.