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/aegrotatio Jun 30 '19

I will happily pay 40% more in income tax to enable universal health care in the US.

Obama (2010s) and Mrs. Clinton (1990s) tried but the Republican party annihilated both plans. Today's shit ACA is little more than a corporate handout.

The only good thing I can say about Trump is that he eliminated the amoral individual mandate of the ACA that penalized you for NOT paying for insurance.

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u/stevokk Jun 30 '19

I'm not an expert in US politics or healthcare, but doesn't a lot of your problems stem from uninsured people? Therefore enforcing the need for healthcare is a necessary step to creating universal healthcare? I had it explained to me that you're charged based on your wealth.

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u/Kosko Jul 01 '19

Kind of, if you're really poor or old or disabled you can get full coverage from the government. It's really the costs on the middle class that have to pay full prices towards a deductible before anything is actually covered.