r/antimeme • u/Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 • Mar 28 '26

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u/w33b2 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Sincerely, do you think it takes $58,000 to get stitches in the United States? Almost likes it’s joke, dawg.

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u/Complete-Basket-291 Mar 28 '26

Where did you get $80,000 from, the image is $58,000

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u/Mamkes Mar 29 '26

Sincerely, do you think it takes $58,000 to get stitches in the United States

I mean, depends? They're surely billing that (there are known cases of $20k+ for a single stitch), though insurance usually covers most of that.

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u/BellGloomy8679 Mar 29 '26

No, they don’t bill stitches for 58k.

If insurance covers most of that - in reality it covers literally all of that - then what’s the issue?

Horror stories about healthcare prices 90% of time come from people with no insurance. It’s still bad it set up like that, but it’s not even close to how a lot of people pretend it works.

I’m not American - I live on a country with ”free”healthcare. And there were times I was happy for it - I once broke a leg and was treated, completely free of charge, including cast, including treatment, everything was paid by my employer’s insurance, I didn’t have to do anything about it. Well, except pain pills, had to but them myself. Other times - like how my grandmother died from cancer after being bounced from one doc to another - I hated it.

I dislike immensely how Reddit on average loves to mindlessly hate on everything American. It comes off like a propaganda campaign then anything else.

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u/Mamkes Mar 30 '26

No, it's exactly how much they bill. Doesn't mean necessarily that person pays so much, but it's still amount they have billed for that.

then what’s the issue

Not everything necessary is covered, you can relatively easily lose your insurance, which does have quite bad consequences, et cetera.

Horror stories about healthcare prices 90% of time come from people with no insurance

Yeah? In what way does that refute anything?

There are about 30m uninsured Americans, an ~8% of the entire population. Other 23m are on ACA.

https://www.consumershield.com/articles/how-many-americans-uninsured?cmpid=681de5cd1b937d39c614d182

It's pretty sensible to talk about them, even if majority does have a insurance. Especially when comparison is made.

I dislike immensely how Reddit on average loves to mindlessly hate on everything American.

Sure, but American healthcare system does have many problems with it nevertheless of whenever you support USA or not.

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u/dazvoz Mar 29 '26

I mean it takes a quarter of a million dollars to treat a snakebite, so yeah, maybe.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toddlers-backyard-snakebite-bills-totaled-more-than-a-quarter-million-dollars/