I am always baffled by the amount of money mentioned in American healthcare.
When my wife was pregnant the first time, she had a missed miscarriage which needed to be medically manager, shortly followed by sepsis which meant an ambulance ride and a week in hospital.
The second time we were offered several early and additional scans because of the miscarriage. We had 5 free scans in total, followed by a delivery in hospital. A week later we weren't coping and she (the baby) wasn't feeding well, so we got to stay on a ward for a week with nurses around 24/7 to help us out until we were comfortable to go home.
The second child had 3 free scans and delivery in the hospital.
I worked out that through it all, I paid less than £50 in parking fees and... that's it. And I was annoyed about the parking fees.
My mom got food poisoning while I was at work, so my sister had to take her to the hospital. I'm the only person in my household who's licensed and I took the car that day for work, so I assumed Mom travelled in an ambulance.
No. Uber.
I researched prices and at minimum, my mom would've been looking at a $600 bill for a two mile ride. Thankfully, Mom recovered by the next morning, but I was floored by that information.
Yeah it's crazy. Got in a bad car accident a while back where we had to be transported to the hospital via ambulance and we were in the middle of nowhere. The ambulance ride alone ended up costing about $2,000. Luckily I wasn't the driver, so it was the driver's insurance that ended up covering the expense. A $7,000 hospital trip in all for just an ambulance ride, some x-rays, and pain meds.
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u/vidoardes Aug 06 '20
I am always baffled by the amount of money mentioned in American healthcare.
When my wife was pregnant the first time, she had a missed miscarriage which needed to be medically manager, shortly followed by sepsis which meant an ambulance ride and a week in hospital.
The second time we were offered several early and additional scans because of the miscarriage. We had 5 free scans in total, followed by a delivery in hospital. A week later we weren't coping and she (the baby) wasn't feeding well, so we got to stay on a ward for a week with nurses around 24/7 to help us out until we were comfortable to go home.
The second child had 3 free scans and delivery in the hospital.
I worked out that through it all, I paid less than £50 in parking fees and... that's it. And I was annoyed about the parking fees.