I saw this quote on another site: “I’m a Critical Care RN
Use to employees could go to ER for less than $100 for EVERYTHING (1990s)
Now, I have hospital insurance and I can’t afford to go to the ER , much less be put in the hospital!
When I go to ER ...... We it doesn’t seem to matter who is there, County hospitals do not turn anyone away! Come one come all ! Wether you’re drunk, sniffles etc!
People need to check and see how many illegal aliens who have family in United States that NEVER plan on paying anything for open heart surgery, 89 -92 yrs old , diabetic, etc
AND also AMERICANS that are heavy drinkers/ smokers , used hard drugs, come in with chest pain, have emergency open heart 5 vessels and labs shows : weed, cocaine, barbiturates and alcohol level
Sky high!
On life supports for 2 - 3 weeks. Then goes thru regular Rehab, only to come back within 6 months with another heart attack stoned when he comes to ER
No insurance and we start all over again .......
Oh by the way when he leaves the Unit he mentions ,” He —, I’m not paying for this hotel bill!
Figure why healthcare is SO high?
All of this happens all the time!”
The US pays more on each person for health care than any nation, but there’s a story here.
I’ve spent six weeks of my life in Denmark and kinda came to observe how health care costs are kept minimum.
In Denmark, gas costs $9.50 a gallon (more or less), so you don’t drive unless necessary, and you tend to live in your town or village.
Roads? Speed limits are are mid-50s on secondary roads and 65 on their interstate. Note, on secondary roads...most are an extra three feet to six feet wider than US roads.
Booze at the grocery? It’s hiked up to a fair degree on taxes. If you want to be an alcoholic in Denmark on hard stuff in Denmark...you need to make big-time money. Beer and wine? Probably ten to twenty percent more than in the US. Caught on a DWI....lost license...no discussion, no negotiation, no pleas.
Drugs? Ten percent of society there might do weed, but you just don’t find cocaine, meth, LSD, or anything much. The taxation on people....usually means they don’t have the money to waste on ‘extras in life’.
Overweight victims waiting to have a heart attack? Go walk around Denmark...it’s hard to find morbidly obese folks. Want to smoke? Better have ample cash on you to avoid a pack of smokes.
Emergency room action in Denmark? Mostly traffic accidents, farm accidents, or heart attacks. But nowhere near the same statistical numbers as the US.
This game we play about cost being silly and outrageous? Well...we won’t change nothing that relates to the cost.
This is what happens when people are silly enough to believe that government, which thrives by creating problems, can be trusted to solve the same problems that government INTENTIONALLY created! Those who are old enough to remember know that before all the government “SOLUTIONS” a person could walk into a doctor’s office, sign in at the desk and see a doctor WITHOUT AN APPOINTMENT and pay five dollars for the office visit. Now you have to call and make an appointment in the distant future and pay a huge fee when you finally see the doctor for one and one half minutes and if you can’t wait that long you are told to go to the emergency room where you may sit for hours longer than you would have had to sit in the doctor’s office in the old days before seeing someone and you are lucky if they don’t make your condition worse and charge you more than a new car used to cost in the old days. No, for those in Yorba Linda, I am not making that up, an emergency room visit can easily cost more than the price of a new car back in the fifties. It is called inflation, a McDonald’s lunch for two now costs more than a week’s worth of groceries for a family used to cost when I was a child and I am not a hundred years old, I am hoping to make it to seventy in late spring.