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Re:COVID-19 Tests Don’t Cost Over $3,000 by yebyen on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:17AM (#22493248)
The original story as I heard was from a person who said that they were mandated to get tested because of their risk of exposure. Now we learn from the mandatory hospital stay, they got a bill for $3000 and didn't even get the COVID-19 test?
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Re:COVID-19 Tests Don’t Cost Over $3,000 by TulliusCicero on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:24AM (#22493294)
Yeah, the original story is only somewhat misleading here. They had to get tested because of possible COVID-19 exposure, and doing so did cost $3000.

The real problem is that healthcare in general in the US has absolutely insane costs, not something specific to the coronavirus.

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