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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Amanita86]
#21961336 - 07/18/15 04:45 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, i guess for a snake bite that's a bit of a stretch. Theres a plethora of other instances where that would hold true though, major surgeries included
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Asante]
#21961343 - 07/18/15 04:46 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah that's a pretty weak story, they don't include shit for info... dude needs to check his heartbeat and stop bitching..
Much respect for all involved, that saved his life on the fly..
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: 404]
#21961345 - 07/18/15 04:47 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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404 said: Insurance companies are more than likely o blame for these absurd medical expenses.... I hate the health care in this country... You can literally fly to france get the health care, live there for two years, and fly back for less than what this dude paid.
insurance companies have been jacking up their prices but the doctors and hospitals have as well, all of this was due to obamacare, the insurance companies have done it because the bill eliminated a lot of competition and because they now are forced to cover preexisting conditions so now instead of someone with diabetes paying a higher premium we all pay a higher premium that almost matched what they were paying preior to the bill's passage
my $32k bill was without insurance, I had it only 8 months earlier but had to drop it because I could no longer afford the premiums since they more than doubled, under obamacare marketplace they were triple and only covered me where my prior insurance covered myself and the kids
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: 404]
#21961357 - 07/18/15 04:49 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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404 said: Im sure ive posted this before but ive literally had doctors tell me the reason why care is so ridiculously expensive is because "we know they will pay that much"
What sucks is people without insurance pay a lot and insurance companies pay a little for the same service. My sinus surgery would have cost me $30,000 without insurance, but the insurance company payed less than $12,000.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Sun King]
#21961369 - 07/18/15 04:52 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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This all sounds so dumb. How did we get to this point?? How did obamacare get upheld?
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: 404]
#21961377 - 07/18/15 04:54 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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404 said: This all sounds so dumb. How did we get to this point?? How did obamacare get upheld?
We put our basic needs in the hands of money grabbing private companies who specialize in actuarial modeling.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Asante]
#21961706 - 07/18/15 06:19 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hate to burst your bubble guys, but insurance companies have been charging this much to uninsured people for decades. I've known lots of people before Obamacare who had medical stuff done while uninsured. Their bills always looked like this.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: nooneman]
#21961921 - 07/18/15 07:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim, albeit a big dude, gets bitten by a rattlesnake and lives by eating the snake and resting for a day and a half. I would try that first and probably die before going to a hospital.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Govam]
#21962053 - 07/18/15 07:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is an easy situation to deal with. Just sue the rattlesnake.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: nooneman]
#21962102 - 07/18/15 07:53 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was just saying fuck obamacare in general. Not necessarily towards this bill. It's worse than what we had before. Far worse.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Prisoner#1]
#21962413 - 07/18/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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maybe it's time you foreigners get your noses out of the US healthcare system
Unlike gun control which effects me because guns get smuggled into Canada I don't care at all about other nations health care systems. Since having a stroke I can't find anyone who will sell me health insurance for trips to USA/Mexico so I just go anyway and hope I don't get sick. I don't pose for selfies with snakes or gators though.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Asante]
#21962484 - 07/18/15 09:25 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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imagine that. get taken to hospital almost dying of a snake bite. wake up 5 days later with a $150,000 hospital bill. now that is some bullshit.
i think i'm going to get into the hospital game in america though. 150k for 4-5 days seems like a pretty solid margin to myself
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Soulidarity]
#21962489 - 07/18/15 09:27 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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from what you're saying though this obamacare system sounds pretty ass backwards.
i.e. the uninsured, usually low income families who can't afford insurance, get charged more...? That does not make sense to myself at all
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Soulidarity]
#21962518 - 07/18/15 09:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Doesn't really make much sense to us either..
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: Shroomslip]
#21962530 - 07/18/15 09:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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i'm gonna take a long shot here and say that Obama wanted to get ahead of some sort of "curve" and said that this plan would be difficult to settle into but that it'd pay off in the long run.
someone, explain this to a Canadian.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: akira_akuma]
#21962536 - 07/18/15 09:45 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: i'm gonna take a long shot here and say that Obama wanted to get ahead of some sort of "curve" and said that this plan would be difficult to settle into but that it'd pay off in the long run.
someone, explain this to a Canadian.
Obama is a bought and paid for puppet, he's the rich white man's boy toy.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: qman]
#21962552 - 07/18/15 09:49 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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that doesn't explain much at all.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#21962575 - 07/18/15 09:54 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: that doesn't explain much at all.
He sucks white dick and is happy to do so, sellout city.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: akira_akuma]
#21962576 - 07/18/15 09:54 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: that doesn't explain much at all.
It can't be explained. No one read it when they voted for it, and no one has read it since.
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Re: Guy gets bitten by a rattlesnake, US hospital charges him $153,161.25 [Re: qman]
#21962579 - 07/18/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You make a convincing argument
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