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WheeGeetheCat ,
@WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works avatar

Here’s my American Healthcare story:

  • snap finger bone, go to urgent care to get splint
  • pay 50ish dollars that day
  • 2 months later, get bill for 200 dollars
  • ahah! everyone says to ask for an itemized bill! do that
  • get itemized bill back that claims the 200 charge is for ‘visiting with a doctor with knowledge of medical history’ (paraphrasing)
  • contest charge because I did not see a doctor, and splinting a snapped finger does not require any fucking context at all
  • get runaround for 2 months, while being threatened with late fees
  • finally they say they will adjust the bill
  • get new bill for $201, ‘for a visit that did not include a doctor’ (no fucking joke)

welcome the USA, where healthcare operations are scams

justice.gov/…/arizona-based-nextcare-inc-pay-us-1…

justice.gov/…/urgent-care-provider-convicted-heal…

(these are just 2 of the scams in my state, thanks to shell companies when one is shut, another opens)

edit: and in case anyone thinks I paid that shit, I didn’t. I sent them a polite version of a ‘fuck you’ reply. Then covid hit and I never heard from them again.

P00P_L0LE ,
@P00P_L0LE@lemmy.ml avatar

fuck america and its dogshit insurance scam industry 🖕 cannot wait for this shitstain country to collapse

Matthew ,

A country collapsing wouldn’t exactly make things easier for its people. I’d prefer just fixing the problem, y’know.

P00P_L0LE ,
@P00P_L0LE@lemmy.ml avatar

America has proven time and time again that it can’t be “fixed”, it’s rotten from the ground up. The longer it stays around the more people it harms. My entire life has been nothing but financial crisis after financial crisis, war after war, a rapidly deteriorating climate, all in the name of profits, and nobody in power seems to want to do jack shit about it. The only way to fix it is to dismantle the structures of power and replace it with a structure where capital doesn’t pull the strings.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Is this a joke I am too not-American to understand?

ezmack OP ,

Yeah. The bill is real but st judes is a charity hospital. Joking the only way to pay his debt is rob a charity

substill ,

St Jude’s is a charity hospital that does not charge patients or their families. They accept insurance payments only and the rest is covered as charity.

ezmack OP ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e6469bcf-808f-437c-98e4-a9af9b5f2041.png

moose_cannon ,

He should ask for an itemized bill. Then he might only owe 50 grand…

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