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Imagine someone stealing your home because you got sick or injured. Jesus fucking christ. Luigi is right. We already live in a dystopia.
Edit: owing $200,000 to a non-profit hospital. Non-profit my ass.
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Reminds me of Crassius (Roman firefighter who would only put out fires in people's homes after buying them for dirt cheap).
It's the end of his story that really fits well and absolutely part of history that bears repeating.
I think their practices are abhorrent, but their non-profit status is irrelevant.
Non-profit basically just means that any profits don't get kept by the owners. The hospital still needs to get paid for its services to operate.
I'm pretty familiar with what it means to be non-profit. I've worked for one, and I realized pretty quickly that the only reason the organization existed was to funnel money to the director.
The people at the top of the food chain can still get hefty salaries while calling the business a non-profit.
This is why it pays to have even shitty insurance guys!
Me:
Emergency room co-pay: $150
8 days in the hospital + open heart surgery from the head of the department: $100
All the drugs and oxygen bottles I could carry: $100
4 weeks later, my company gets acquired, my insurance changes, I lose all my doctors, my hospital, and have to start over in a new medical system. I also developed complications.
7 days in the hospital getting fluid drained: $6,500.
That met my yearly out of pocket maximum and evaporated my signing bonus with the new company.
Are you in the US? 6,500 sounds low for 7 days in the hospital.
My share was $6,500. Once I hit that, insurance covered 100%.
Annual out of pocket maximum.
Nice. That's not terrible for American insurance. I've had worse.
Yeah, truly.
When we were uninsured more than twenty years ago, my wife went to an emergency room with horrendous internal pain, waited three hours to see a doctor who prescribed extra-strength Pepto-Bismol and missed what we later learned was the obvious diagnosis of gallstones. The bill was a bit more than three grand.
This kind of debt is unique to the US. That is an important point that needs to be made over and over again.
We are in last fucking place. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise, especially not those getting rich from it.
So is this resulting from a certain incident in NYC?
Actually looks like it happened before. But the optics of it in this timeline are surely satisfying.
You mean they didn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Why didn't they just cut out avocado toast for the next 200 years?
New checkbox on their deny form: [ ] Can we get away with denying this claim?