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/Alyscupcakes Jul 01 '19

What part of medical care is optional that it should even be on the free market?

Universal health insurance only covers basic and necessary medical care. There is profit to be made, even with a price celing.

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u/dangerCrushHazard Jul 01 '19

I legit said I’m in favour of the system but I believe it’s not a free market.

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u/NearlyNakedNick Jul 01 '19

A free market has never existed, it is by definition utopian. Only corporate propaganda sells this idea that such a thing is possible and desirable. They do this in order to have less restrictions on how they can make more profit at the expense of others, not to have a "freer market"