I was figuring the high cost was because of illegal aliens.
Cause you got to know if you take the interest on the hospital mortgage, any taxes it pays...cost of space in other words, plus the cost of nursing care which is the ONLY medical personnel provided in the hospital....it does not equal $7500 a day. The nursing personnel make..what?..maybe $200 a shift...times three shifts...that’s $600 a day for nursing. The nurses handle maybe ten patients a day....
In husband’s case there was the cost of his bed and the nursing care but using normal economical methods of computing costs to charge, no way does it come near $7500 a day. The hospital does provide such as physical therapy. Husband did have some...maybe every third day...a guy to walk him around, get him moving. There was also the cost of the milk stuff to nourish him and the hospital did provide him his scrips...in his case blood pressure medicine and anti-seizure meds.
neither of these meds are very expensive. The blood pressure med husband takes he gets three months worth from Walmart. The Keppera....costs about $27 a month on our medical plan. I imagine the hospital gets their meds on the cheap.
It’s to pay for all the folks who don’t pay their medical bills. Here in the swamps we got a lot of Ecuadorian illegals who camp out in the ER, like they do in the rest of the country.
You get someone with a good medical plan you charge them triple what would likely be a fair cost if hospital had to survive like a normal business.
$14K charged as in your story, even if your health provider got in cut in half like they do....well I believe you but there’s nothing even remotely logical, or sustainable, in these rates.
But I don’t have the answers, I sure don’t, except maybe try making the illegals pay their share, just for starters.
If hospitals can charge $3 or so for an aspirin, who knows what they are charging for those 'inexpensive' meds?