I went to the urgent care (and was unfortunately referred to emergency care in the same building) for some chest pain a few weeks ago. Here’s some of my bill (luckily most should be covered by insurance, we’ll see if they give me trouble)
Blood draw/lab test: $446.63
Plasma test: $158.07
Chest x-ray: $664.66
“Emergency services” or in other words, the bill for getting transfered from urgent care to emergency: $3,987.00
ECG: $1,024.94
All of that, just for them to tell me that I was fine and to just rest. $6,295.29 for an hour long visit. If I didn’t have insurance, I wouldn’t be able to afford that and would have just preferred whatever was going to happen to me.
Meanwhile the fucking shitty human beings in Congress get free universal healthcare.
I was in an accident a few years back and broke my orbital floor, sphenoid, and ended up with pneumocephalus. I was there for about 32 hours total and ended up with a 150k bill. 65k of that was imaging.
this country is so fucking broken. imagine even being able to go to the hospital for “flu like symptoms”, most of us would never do that cause we know it’d be a 10k bill.
What in the everloving fuck. I had some kinda specific symptoms one weekend, I called the doc on Monday, he said come in this afternoon (must’ve been a bit worried, getting an appointment normally takes longer, I don’t want to misrepresent this).
I went in, we had a chat, he said come back tomorrow for a blood test. I dutifully went in for the test and went home. 8PM that night I got a call from an out of hours doctor, they said get yourself to A&E (emergency room). More bloods taken, I was triaged and admitted (which took about 36hrs - was a heavy time, I wasn’t super urgent).
Spent the next 5 weeks in hospital, I now have a life long condition which necessitates a lot of pills that I’ve been taking for a few years now.
Total out of pocket cost £0.
People still try to claim the US system is superior.
That sucks, but it’s good they discovered the cause right away.
I’ve had chest pain off and on for 20 years now, and I was super paranoid about it because all my relatives died of heart attacks on one side of the family, so I’ve been to the ER multiple times.
Every time, they would admit me immediately, give me an aspirin and hook me to an ECG. One hour later, I leave because everything looks good.
Now when I get chest pain or tightness, I just roll my eyes, try to ignore it, and keep doing what I’m doing.
I finally decided to wear a Holter monitor and get a sonogram done, which revealed something unrelated. They said come back next year so we can look for changes.
Oh right, I’ve never had to worry about paying for anything. All I have to do is show my OHIP card when I walk in to the ER or the imaging clinic.
I did have to wait two weeks to get an appointment from my family doctor for that, followed by a day or two to get the Holter and sonogram, but that’s Canadian health care for ya
I went to the urgent care (and was unfortunately referred to emergency care in the same building) for some chest pain a few weeks ago. Here’s some of my bill (luckily most should be covered by insurance, we’ll see if they give me trouble)
All of that, just for them to tell me that I was fine and to just rest. $6,295.29 for an hour long visit. If I didn’t have insurance, I wouldn’t be able to afford that and would have just preferred whatever was going to happen to me.
Meanwhile the fucking shitty human beings in Congress get free universal healthcare.
This is what they mean when they say “US spends more in healthcare than rest of the world combined”
Artificially inflated prices to show you’re spending 100x more for the same procedure/medicine than the rest of the world.
But hey, big numbers always means good, right?
I was in an accident a few years back and broke my orbital floor, sphenoid, and ended up with pneumocephalus. I was there for about 32 hours total and ended up with a 150k bill. 65k of that was imaging.
this country is so fucking broken. imagine even being able to go to the hospital for “flu like symptoms”, most of us would never do that cause we know it’d be a 10k bill.
What in the everloving fuck. I had some kinda specific symptoms one weekend, I called the doc on Monday, he said come in this afternoon (must’ve been a bit worried, getting an appointment normally takes longer, I don’t want to misrepresent this).
I went in, we had a chat, he said come back tomorrow for a blood test. I dutifully went in for the test and went home. 8PM that night I got a call from an out of hours doctor, they said get yourself to A&E (emergency room). More bloods taken, I was triaged and admitted (which took about 36hrs - was a heavy time, I wasn’t super urgent).
Spent the next 5 weeks in hospital, I now have a life long condition which necessitates a lot of pills that I’ve been taking for a few years now.
Total out of pocket cost £0.
People still try to claim the US system is superior.
That sucks, but it’s good they discovered the cause right away.
I’ve had chest pain off and on for 20 years now, and I was super paranoid about it because all my relatives died of heart attacks on one side of the family, so I’ve been to the ER multiple times. Every time, they would admit me immediately, give me an aspirin and hook me to an ECG. One hour later, I leave because everything looks good.
Now when I get chest pain or tightness, I just roll my eyes, try to ignore it, and keep doing what I’m doing.
I finally decided to wear a Holter monitor and get a sonogram done, which revealed something unrelated. They said come back next year so we can look for changes.
Oh right, I’ve never had to worry about paying for anything. All I have to do is show my OHIP card when I walk in to the ER or the imaging clinic.
I did have to wait two weeks to get an appointment from my family doctor for that, followed by a day or two to get the Holter and sonogram, but that’s Canadian health care for ya
JFC
I can tell you to rest for, I dunno, $500?
(Jokes aside, that’s shitty and I’ve been there)