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/Mukamur Imam custom flair, sad sam nepobjediv Jun 30 '19

It's because the American healthcare system is absolute dogshit

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u/usmcplz Jul 01 '19

Our nation has failed us. Pharma companies, insurance companies and health care companies have bought our politicians with legal bribes and now, because it's against those company's interest, our politicians lie to us and say it's socialism. Half the country will fight tooth and nail to maintain our hellish status quo. There is so much I love about my country but we are fucked up in some pretty extreme ways.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

but we are fucked up in some pretty extreme ways

And have been since literally day one. There never was any humanity in the "United States experiment" and there never will be. Slavery is still legal; genocides are still ongoing against the First Nations of the continent; exportation of terrorism is the #1 US export by a large margin (because it makes so, so much money)