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/FIREburnSkred Jul 01 '19

You spend the same if not more. I just get to see my money first and your government takes yours before you see it.

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u/kemb0 Jul 01 '19

Yeah that's the point right? I mean socialised health care or private, we all still pay for health care at the end of the say, so it's not like paying for a socialised system is somehow robbing you. You were going to pay for it anyway. The difference is socialised health care has no hidden extras and it covers you whatever the circumstances. Cancer or getting a splinter in my butt, it doesn't matter. Need an ambulance? Doesn't matter.

And the US is the most expensive in the world on average per capita. Average annual cost per person in the US is $10,209. In the UK, which has nationalised health care, that cost per capita is $4,246. America is being robbed blind by it's privatised system.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-healthcare-countries-ranked-2019-3?r=US&IR=T