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Published 7 years ago by xXwraithXx with 5 Comments

Health insurance in the USA

 

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  • CrookedTale
    +6

    But hey, the insurance paid for it right!

    • hedman
      +4

      Whew! It's not like those costs get passed on to the customers.... wait.

  • RippleNipple
    +6

    Yup! My medicine is only $700 a month but I get it. But my insurance doesn't pay everything. I still have to pay $50 a month, which isn't too bad compared to full price. It's just crazy that medicine could cost someone $37803.79.

  • NotWearingPants
    +4

    $1350 per pill. But I guess nationwide advertising direct to consumers isn't cheap. Nor is the inevitable class-action lawsuits for side effects. The whole system is broken.

  • RoamingGnome (edited 7 years ago)
    +3

    Such a massive scam. Insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, doctors, equipment suppliers (I was an engineer for GE Healthcare), the whole shebang. It's just a giant scam.

    Edit- One more thing. I was in the CT/MRI modality. Do you know why a hospital puts everybody that they can into the CT scanner? You want to believe it's because that's a quick and easy way to find the problem and the hospital is just trying to give you the best care possible.

    Wouldn't that be nice? I want to live in that world.

    The reality is that the CT scanner is the single most profitable piece of equipment in the hospital. I have been retired for 12 years, but back then it was around $2k for a CT scan. $600 of that went to the radiologist for his 2 minutes of work reading the scan and speaking his report into the Dictaphone. The other $1400 is almost pure profit for the hospital. A typical CT scanner that cost $1.5M would be paid off in less than 2 months at an average hospital. It's a giant scam and I am ashamed to have made money as a part of it. I'm sorry.

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