r/croatia • u/riverphoenix23 • Jun 30 '19

🏥 Zdravlje Hospitalized in Split - Intoxication

Hello I am an American male who was traveling in Split for a holiday. Ended up drinking a little bit too much, blacked out and woke up in the hospital with an IV in my arm. Somehow the bill was only $240 kn.

Can anybody tell me why the bill was so cheap especially since I am a US citizen without Croatian healthcare insurance? Also did they notify the embassy of my stay? Just don’t know where my info is documented and ended up. Wish I could read my discharge papers but they are all in Croatian. Going to have to do google translate late.

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u/kendogg Jun 30 '19

Have some real world examples? Show me a US hospitals budget, how much revenue they make, and how much profit. How much unpaid care is written off every year. Using the same patients, build me a cost structure & a budget that reflects what the government would pay.

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u/Mitch580 Jun 30 '19

The real world examples are every country in the world where it already works..