His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving.
How absolutely splendid for him. Pretty neat to be covered by quality healthcare at the expense of the taxpayers, I should imagine. Even better to be wealthy enough to go beyond even that.
Meanwhile I am still fighting my insurance to cover a $1k blood draw that is absolutely covered by my shit coverage. Fuck him. Fuck the insurance companies and fuck the elected officials that consistently battle the American people at the behest of their financiers.
The fuck it costs 1000 dollars to get some blood drawn? What the fuck is happening in America.
The USA is a dozen people standing in a fully stocked supermarket with one guy saying, “I guess there’s nothing left- we’ll have to kill and eat each other,” while the other 11 quietly grumble about it but don’t dare do anything that might appear threatening. Someone will be along to save them, surely.
It is a scam pulled by insurance companies.
Let say there is a doctor that charges $100 for a visit. They come too then and say “we have large network, we can provide many patients for you, but we will pay 20% of your price”.
The doctor still needs to get $100, because also needs to pay the staff and other expenses, so s/he raises their price to $500.
Now someone without insurance comes. The doctor doesn’t need $500, and is ok charging just $100. But if s/he does the insurance might sure them that the doctor lied to them and they only supposed to pay $20. So they are forced to charge $500.
In summary, that $500 is never paid by anyone unless they don’t have insurance.
You can check how much discount insurance pays by looking for “adjustment” column on your bill.
They purposefully use that name and posting the difference instead of price to obfuscate this.
What insurance is paying is the billed amount minus adjustment minus your copay and deductible.
There are other things contributing to high prices, but this is the biggest one IMO. If we didn’t have insurance meddling with the prices, the prices would be much lower. Still high, but at least something someone could be able to pay.
The markups on labs are even more ridiculous, unless it is some highly specialized test they are actually cheap to the point that some insurances don’t even require copays.
It is a scam pulled by insurance companies
No, it’s cowardice on the part of the American people who refuse to throw a punch
It’s hard to call it cowardice, when most people are not even aware of the scam.
True Cost of US Healthcare Shocks the British Public:
It was a lot of tests, to be fair, and the funny thing is that it wasn’t all of it. There was another $130 charge for some other tests that they did end up covering - but not without appealing. It wasn’t a standard full panel blood test that I had to get at my age (48) due to family history. But regardless, my Dr ordered it and it’s goddamned covered.
I just had my annual exam where they did a full blood panel, an EKG, urine panel and it didn’t cost me anything.
Yeah, I have labs I’ve been putting off for like 6 months because I know it’s going to end up being like a $400-600 bill. They’re just standard labs, CMP, CBC, lft
Is the flu okay?
You ever see Akira?
He has absorbed it, and added it’s power to his.
I hope he dies a slow, agonizing death for the pain he has caused millions.
Fuck. Him.
Burn in hell.
I hope soon he experiences “dead-like” symptoms.
Hope he dies, scared, alone, clawing for breath.
Fuck off, turtle. No one gives a shit for your health on our dime. Most of the shit going on is your fucking fault.
Shit his pants on camera before Trump.
It’s a potty party.
When will it upgrade to death-like symptoms?
Agonizing pain is the only well wishes I can muster for him
Don’t. Don’t give me hope.
Don’t worry.
He’ll receive the best healthcare available that millions of other Americans don’t have access to and he won’t lose his job or have to ask his fellow employees to donate sick hours to him.
All after spending an entire career teaching other Republicans how to subvert our democracy.
Death cannot come soon enough to this traitor.
Bastard. Hope he rots.
Please please please please please please
Bye, bitch!
Might be the day baby. ✌️
