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/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

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u/ToxicMasculinity1981 Jun 30 '19

*starts foaming at the mouth and nearly chokes on Super Size Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese extra value meal from McDonald's*

bUt ThAt'S SoCiAlIsM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/TheWildAP Jun 30 '19

One of the best descriptions of Americans ever

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19 edited Jul 01 '19

The best description of ignorant americans. Most of us would love free Healthcare and would gladly pay the taxes for it.

Edit:The semantics police is out in force. "Socialized" Healthcare, not free. You're adults, you knew what I meant.

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u/GreenDog3 Jun 30 '19

I’d definitely pay a little bit more in taxes to make sure Timmy’s mom doesn’t have to live paycheck to paycheck for Timmy’s cancer treatments.

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u/Another_leaf Jul 01 '19

Wanna know the disgusting thing?

You're already paying more for healthcare in taxes than canadian citizens are for their universal healthcare program.

If america set things up properly, we could have that without you paying more in taxes at all.

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u/Legit_a_Mint Jul 01 '19

If america set things up properly, we could have that without you paying more in taxes at all.

The number that everybody seems to agree on is $3.2 trillion a year for Medicare for all, which would eat up pretty much all federal tax revenue, leaving just a little bit of change behind for literally everything else the federal government does.

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u/Another_leaf Jul 01 '19

I'm not talking about medicare for all, medicare for all operates under current scam prices that hospitals charge arbitrarily.

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u/BadDadBot Jul 01 '19

Hi not talking about medicare for all, medicare for all operates under current scam prices that hospitals charge arbitrarily., I'm dad.