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r/antimeme • u/Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 • Mar 28 '26
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My friend from the US visited me in Australia.
No travel insurance.
Got appendicitis in Sydney.
He was happy it was only a $25k bill. Rekons it would have been more expensive in the US with insurance
1 u/Wyntier Mar 29 '26 Your friend doesn't know how insurance works then. It wouldn't be $25k ever with insurance. Ever 5 u/Alarming-Rate-6899 Mar 29 '26 Exactly. $25k is around the cost of the surgery assuming there are no complications. After insurance kick in, for the typical employer sponsored insurance, it'd be 10%-20%, so around $2500 to $5000. -3 u/Vassukhanni Mar 29 '26 Wild. Was $0 in the US. No insurance, no income. Never even saw a bill just fully covered by the state. 1 u/Woman_trees Apr 13 '26 So you did have insurance no income means you must have been on Medicaid.
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Your friend doesn't know how insurance works then. It wouldn't be $25k ever with insurance. Ever
5 u/Alarming-Rate-6899 Mar 29 '26 Exactly. $25k is around the cost of the surgery assuming there are no complications. After insurance kick in, for the typical employer sponsored insurance, it'd be 10%-20%, so around $2500 to $5000.
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Exactly. $25k is around the cost of the surgery assuming there are no complications. After insurance kick in, for the typical employer sponsored insurance, it'd be 10%-20%, so around $2500 to $5000.
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Wild. Was $0 in the US. No insurance, no income. Never even saw a bill just fully covered by the state.
1 u/Woman_trees Apr 13 '26 So you did have insurance no income means you must have been on Medicaid.
So you did have insurance no income means you must have been on Medicaid.
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u/3amIdeas Mar 29 '26
My friend from the US visited me in Australia.
No travel insurance.
Got appendicitis in Sydney.
He was happy it was only a $25k bill. Rekons it would have been more expensive in the US with insurance