His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving.

How absolutely splendid for him. Pretty neat to be covered by quality healthcare at the expense of the taxpayers, I should imagine. Even better to be wealthy enough to go beyond even that.

Meanwhile I am still fighting my insurance to cover a $1k blood draw that is absolutely covered by my shit coverage. Fuck him. Fuck the insurance companies and fuck the elected officials that consistently battle the American people at the behest of their financiers.

The fuck it costs 1000 dollars to get some blood drawn? What the fuck is happening in America.

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.