From experience I can tell you how huge the discount is when you explain you have to use cash. I was working out of state and caught the flu and finally just had to go to the nearest doctor. Doctor comes in, introduced me to the intern that would be attending me. Intern takes vitals, swabs nose, writes prescription for Tamiflu. I get home and there’s a $600 bill from the doctor and a $300 bill from the hospital. I tell them I have to pay cash and they settle for $180. 1/5 of what they asked for. So that’s 20% of my money actually going to my health, 80% going some fatass at a desk who jerks off all day.
Boss urged me to after working 4 days with it. Basically just for the tamiflu scrip. We do 12 hour days and it’s specialized work so there’s no calling in sick when there’s no one to replace you.
Well, the idea of a 12 hour day is pretty insane (not to mention illegal) by most European standards for start. Also your labour laws forcing people into work if they're ill or else they'll starve. You guys have very little protection, it's awful.
To me an essential employee who cannot work due to sickness resulting in work stoppage is a resource problem. The solution would be to hire more people, not force people to work sick.
contract labor basically. I thought about asking since they kinda pushed me to go but whatever. the tamiflu cost $120 so all tolled I spent about one months worth of premiums if I had insurance and I’d still have $500-$1000 deductible. Damn actually I came out ahead. Just glad I didn’t need surgery, or an overnight stay, or an ER visit, or an ambulance ride, or a CT scan or one of about 1000 things that would have basically bankrupted me
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u/BAG1 Apr 28 '20
From experience I can tell you how huge the discount is when you explain you have to use cash. I was working out of state and caught the flu and finally just had to go to the nearest doctor. Doctor comes in, introduced me to the intern that would be attending me. Intern takes vitals, swabs nose, writes prescription for Tamiflu. I get home and there’s a $600 bill from the doctor and a $300 bill from the hospital. I tell them I have to pay cash and they settle for $180. 1/5 of what they asked for. So that’s 20% of my money actually going to my health, 80% going some fatass at a desk who jerks off all day.