Posted on 07/30/2015 9:26:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Go to a Mexican hospital. They have snake and scorpion anti venom about 1/100 what it costs here. You can survive the plane ride provided you have a passport.
Nobody forced her to get bit and seek treatment.
Hospital bills are grossly inflated.
There are the so called “gross” charges, which is likely what this $200,000 consists of. This is the gross revenue for the patient stay.
Then there is the “net revenue” or “net collectible” amount which the hospital expects to actually receive in payment. This amount is generally about 20-30% of the gross charges.
So, in round numbers, 30% of $200,000 is $60,000 that the hospital might expect to actually receive a check for to pay for this patient’s stay. And the insurance company pays the bulk of that.
A good analogy is airline fares. The full coach fare from New York to LA may be in the neighborhood of $1500 to $1800. Yet the price you actually pay can easily be in the area of $300 to $500. Very few people pay actual full coach fare for a plane ticket. And very few people pay that actual full cost which shows up on a gross charge hospital bill.
Come now. Two hundred thousand dollars is not exemplary of “everything right about our healthcare system”. LOL!
It’s a crock and everyone knows it. No wonder we are in the shape we’re in if you believe frisk and rob is okay.
I agree.
Stuned? With a beeber like device? Oh and BTW a moose once bit my sister. The non venemous variety, fortunately.
Because then, you might decide to ride it out after getting most of it out and not contribute to the medical cash farming Industry.
An uncle of mine, and my late grandfathers toy poodle were both bitten by copperheads and managed without AV. Was touch and go with the dog for a couple weeks... Uncle said it was “like 2 hot pokers of FAR stuck into ma ankle!”
Granted, the lady might have an allergy, or be some candy ass liberal transplant... (ARF!)
They said the same thing about cottonmouths in northern VA, I think if they’re rare they do that to keep people from being scared off (revenue) and trying to find them...
We have pygmy rattlers in FL. They all have Napoleon complexes—dang little things will attack anything. They generally aren’t deadly, but they will mess up your day.
I would think the regulatory burden makes it hideously more expensive in the US.
One vial cost my hospital 105 dollars.
Did they notify the snakes in writing that they don’t exist in Northern Ohio?
Snakes call it brut.
Other parts of FL they get 6'.
Depends on where you're bit, how close to a hospital. The old days they had no anti venom. In a vein, you 're dead.
Met a guy, his whole leg was just scarred skin and bones.
They inject an enzyme that breaks down protein, muscle tissue.
Oh, here, let me help:
TWO-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!!
Can you see it now?
My paternal grandfather was bitten by a copper head. He killed the snake, crosscut the Bute with his pocket knife to let it bleed out, and went about pulling potatoes from the patch.
/Story my dad recently told me, so this was mid 1950s rural Texas.
It’s good advice.
I was standing on a road in Withlacootchee State Forest a few years back. Just standing there looking.
I sense something, looked down and saw one of those going between my feet as it crossed the path.
Experts say you should never try to suck the venom out.
Why not?
In fact, Schaeffer says that could actually make it worse.
Why?
Also, dont use ice on the bite...
Again, why not?
...and dont use a tourniquet to keep the venom from spreading.
Once again, why not?
So, basically, don't do anything except "go immediately to the hospital". Brilliant.
How wonderfully informative and explanatory! Is this the sort of garbage that passes for journalism nowadays?
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