It always astounds me how much these things cost. It like stupidly expensive. I understand specialists involved etc, but do they just get together and say "what's the biggest number we can think of"
I was hospitalized for 2 months last year with a serious blood infection that caused an abscess in my spine, and I was almost paralyzed. I had just lost my (basically) minimum wage job a month prior and my family kept emphasizing how lucky I was to have medicaid "or else my treatment would cost a million dollars!"
I consider myself lucky but I still lie awake at night wondering what would've happened if I had private insurance. That bill would've probably killed me faster than the infection.
heppulikeppuli on August 14th, 2020 at 06:53 UTC »
There is an American documentary about this kind of case. In that documentary a family man pays hes hospital bills with meth.
dorkingwed on August 14th, 2020 at 07:16 UTC »
It always astounds me how much these things cost. It like stupidly expensive. I understand specialists involved etc, but do they just get together and say "what's the biggest number we can think of"
courierthicc on August 14th, 2020 at 08:32 UTC »
I was hospitalized for 2 months last year with a serious blood infection that caused an abscess in my spine, and I was almost paralyzed. I had just lost my (basically) minimum wage job a month prior and my family kept emphasizing how lucky I was to have medicaid "or else my treatment would cost a million dollars!"
I consider myself lucky but I still lie awake at night wondering what would've happened if I had private insurance. That bill would've probably killed me faster than the infection.