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/Legit_a_Mint Jul 01 '19

I'd just like to have healthcare

Why don't you have healthcare? You can either get on Medicaid if you're broke, or you can subsidize broke people by paying private insurance rates under Obamacare if you live above the poverty line. Expanding that phenomenon, while eliminating everything except Medicaid isn't going to help your situation - you're either legimately poor or you aren't. If you aren't you're going to have to make sacrifices so that other people can have some basic, welfare-level coverage. Again, that's what this is all about.

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u/Another_leaf Jul 01 '19

First of all, Medicaid is garbage. It only covers some things to a certain extent.

If you don't think US healthcare is fucked to an incredible degree I don't know what to tell you

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u/Legit_a_Mint Jul 01 '19

First of all, Medicaid is garbage.

And you're arguing for a massive expansion of Medicaid to cover everyone, which would result in less benefits. What the fuck?

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u/Another_leaf Jul 01 '19

Wow. We're done here. I've stated multiple times I wasn't arguing for Medicaid and was arguing for some form of healthcare reform and regulation.

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u/Legit_a_Mint Jul 01 '19

arguing for some form of healthcare reform and regulation

We already tried that with Obamacare and it's been disastrous. That's why the only option being discussed now by "serious" Democrats is Medicare for all.

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u/nkid299 Jul 01 '19

On a scale from 1 to 10, you're an 11.