AuschwitzCare won’t treat you, you’ll be sent to their “camps” for the Hussein/Reid/Pelosi “solution.” Sound like 1930’s in Germany to you????
The reason it costs $180,000 was likely due to the fact that there are several million illegal aliens who use the Emergency Room as their Primary Care Provider. They show up, demand service, then leave - and it’s all free.
So, if you are giving away care to illegals; you have to charge the people who CAN pay, out the nose. I’d suggest that if we didn’t have illegals parasiting on the system, that the costs of this stay would be far closer to $5,000 instead of $180,000
“I care about her very much and don’t want to hurt her feelings. But this is just... flipping me out.”
I suspect the one who is really flipping out is the mother who is sicker than a dog. I feel sorry for her. She’s only 73. That’s not very old, too young to die.
I just spent an hour and a half in the ER. Nothing too serious, abdominal pain. One blood test, one urine test, one CT scan. Tab? $2,600.
For the last three years of my mother’s life, my family paid $7,000.00 per month for a private 6 person rehab home. If we had left her in a crappy nursing home it would have cost $10,000.00 a month. We HAD to pay out of pocket. The private care was so much better!
I’d like to know how they can charge $1000 per unit of blood when blood is donated FREE.
My dad is one of many physicians who will stop accepting medicare when Obamageddoncare is underway. They already lose money on it. With the reimbursement cuts proposed, it would kill him (financially). So, expect a law forcing doctors to accept medicare patients. Then, expect doctors to hang up their shingle and give two giant middle fingers to Obama.
Your friend is fortunate they don’t live in Great Britain.
Start printing out all the many stories you see about Socialized medicine - especially for the elderly - in England.
And start printing out all the articles you see about how doctors are giving up their practice because Obama-care is already starting to driving them under.
It’s bad folks. And it’s gonna get worse.
I hope she does.
Forgive me, Gerontologist (I think?)
First thing they do is untangle the pharmacopoeia of pills the elderly have been given by various specialists to treat real or imaginary conditions.
Sometimes they whittle treatment down to just two or three prescriptions and the patient quality of life improves dramatically.
Best regards,
My wife spent 2 days in the hospital after being admitted through the ER where I took her for severe stomach pain.
Diagnosed diverticulitis after a CAT scan.
Bill: $ 17,000.00 ...Antibiotics w/ prescription card, $ 400.00
Seems like the hospitals and Big Phara are begging for Obamah-Care!
Ya EVER wonder WHY that hospital charge $20 for a aspirin tablet? It’s because of LEECHES like your “buddy”! Hospitals have to make a profit or at least break EVEN or they are OUT OF BUSINESS!
Let me break the cost down for you:
$60,000 - malpractice insurance
$60,000 - retainer fee for malpractice attorneys
$40,000 - cost of illegal alien ER care
$20,000 - cost of patient’s medical care
It’s nuts. My wifes Doctor ordered a mammogram and sent her to the hospital for it. $700 {$500 for the hospital and $200 for the tech.} It took maybe 5 minutes to do the test. I can not believe how expensive it is becoming.
I have a friend also whose mother is very similar to what you described. It’s a never ending stream of visits to doctors and emergency rooms. They are guessing at this point what is wrong with her as nothing conclusive ever comes out. It’s a friggin’ joke. The mother plays the system, and my friend, like a fiddle.
The side effects and incompatibility of 13 different medications, which are obviously being prescribed by different doctors, could be part of her problem.
Have known a couple people that almost died this way.
Doesn’t matter. The story is the same over and over. Could be just about anybody.
I know a doc who says people bring in their medicine and it covers a 3 SQUARE FOOT area on the counter in his office. For one person! He usually takes them off of most of the stuff and they get better! We are not meant to have this many chemicals in us.
I am sort of the opposite case. I have some paralysis from an old neck injury. Also looks like incipient diabetes. I never go to the doctor, just work non-stop. That isn’t to say I don’t watch my health, I get plenty of exercie. I dropped my carbohydrate intake to a minimum and my energy levels picked right up. Some health foods like fish oil and dhea actually seem to help.
Cost to taxpayer - zero. Potential cost to taxpayer if forced into medical system - potentially infinite. I could milk that cow for hundreds of thousands like your friend.