Re:I shared my toddler's hospital bill on Twitter
by pravda on Saturday July 08, 2017 @04:35PM
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>$ 576 for 1 single chest x-ray
Well, that's just a rip-off price.
>Health Insurance coverage is too closely tied to employment. In order to get continued coverage, you are more or less working "for the man" till you die.
At age 65, you can enter the single-payer system!
Re:I shared my toddler's hospital bill on Twitter
by dogma1138 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:01AM
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That's what you get when most bills are either unpaid or paid at cents on the dollar by insurance companies.
Re:I shared my toddler's hospital bill on Twitter
by tehlike on Saturday July 08, 2017 @03:05AM
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If you or on high deductible plan, consider hsa :)
Re:I shared my toddler's hospital bill on Twitter
by throwaway2016a on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:46PM
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Depending on his tax rate with HSA a $1000 bill would still be $750 after the tex savings. Hardly an improvement.
Yes they are ridiculously high, even after factoring in cost of living / currency rates or as a %age of monthly salary, if you are comparing it to costs in a different country. 1 month after coming here (to America) from India (1999) I had to get wax from my left ear cleaned as it was blocking my hearing.
They squirted some liquid in my ear and got the wax out. 2 weeks later, I got the insurance Statement. It cost $ 800. I was astonished. In India a year before, I'd paid a Doc 100 Rupees (at that time, $2 equivalent in USD) for the same exact thing.
A month later, I had a chest x-ray taken, and some weird quirk in insurance it wasn't covered. So I had to boot the bill. $ 576 for 1 single chest x-ray. My take home at that time as a software engineer was about 2500 / month after tax and deductions, so this was 23% of my paycheck!
Health Insurance coverage is too closely tied to employment. In order to get continued coverage, you are more or less working "for the man" till you die.