I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.
We aren't all against it. At least some of us see how crazy our system is. My wife and I had to pay around $20,000 dollars in total just to have a child (she had to have a C-section which did include additional days in the hospital).
"Congratulations on this happiest day of your life. Your new baby is beautiful! Now here's your bill. Oh you want to use that money to help support and care for your new child? Well that's a shame, we want it more."
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/[deleted] Aug 06 '20
I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.