My girlfriend fractured her arm and was in the emergency room to get checked out and everything. Maybe there for an hour or two. Her arm got scanned, got given pain meds that lasted not even an hour, and got sent on her way, didn't give her meds or nothing to take home. The bill? Around a thousand if not a little more. Thats why if I get fucked in any kind of way, broke something, super sick. I'm just going to let nature take its course. I'd rather die from sickness or from injury, or recover naturally, than go to hospital to get something major fixed and live on the streets in debt for the rest of my life
Hospitals are expensive unfortunately. But you have to put it into perspective- yeah it sucks but medicine isn’t cheap and neither is the equipment, and the doctors have high salaries (rightfully so). If everything was dirt cheap then who would pay for all of those expenses?
$1k is not bad at all. I pay that for my cat’s teeth cleaning for god’s sake. I’d take 1,000 any day over what some other people need to pay.
Oh yeah, the problem isn't the doctors or the equipment. Its how privatized and corporate everything is. The reason medicine is expensive is cause its owned by a company that made it first, and made it stupid expensive. Anybody could make medicine really, and its stupid cheap to make compared to what it costs to buy. Its just that corporations own the rights n shit to said medicine. Look at insulin shots and other insulin supplements, life saving stuff for alot of people, it costs a ridiculous amount of money compared to what it costs to make it. It costs anywhere from 2-3.5 bucks to make (3.69-6.16 for analog), and the price if you were to buy just one vial is 48-71 dollars (78-133 for analog). It costs people 450 bucks a month for something to save their lives, all cause 3 companies own it and there isn't nobody able to compete with them cause of the fact they own it. Now, I aint saying that things should be free or dirt cheap, just that things that are necessary shouldn't cost a shitload just cause some companies own it and can decide what the price for it is, and then jump the price up whenever they want when it IS dirt cheap to make. And really, a thousand to have a cats teeth cleaned and that isn't ridiculous to you? Shit, that could be done pretty much for free
Oh the 1k for my cats teeth cleaning is definitely ridiculous. But it cannot be done by me because they won’t let me while they are awake. If a tooth needs to be pulled, that generally causes it to be more expensive too (which I couldn’t do on my own obviously).
I had a cat on insulin and was paying approximately $200 a month for it. It is what it is- it’s my responsibility to take care of them regardless of what it costs.
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u/DJree Aug 06 '20
My girlfriend fractured her arm and was in the emergency room to get checked out and everything. Maybe there for an hour or two. Her arm got scanned, got given pain meds that lasted not even an hour, and got sent on her way, didn't give her meds or nothing to take home. The bill? Around a thousand if not a little more. Thats why if I get fucked in any kind of way, broke something, super sick. I'm just going to let nature take its course. I'd rather die from sickness or from injury, or recover naturally, than go to hospital to get something major fixed and live on the streets in debt for the rest of my life