vegetaSen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized after experiencing 'flu-like symptoms'
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.
CorrectAliasI 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.
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