Election 2012

[PP Mguire]

Yeah, if they really wanted to fix healthcare they should have focused on getting costs down and eliminating waste so we all could actually afford it in the first place.

I was talking to my cousin the other day and he was telling me how he had some tests run and when he got the bill back the cost was absurd so he made them give him an itemized receipt of it all before he would pay a cent. Turns out they had run tons of tests his doctor didn't even order and they ran one test 14 times. His insurance was dumb enough to go ahead and pay it anyways even though they new the lab was pulling a fast one on them.

Crap like that is what is really wrong with our healthcare system.

Exactly. Unless the costs of health care are controlled then ANY health care program is going to be a complete fiasco.

 

[overlord20]

I got an x-ray for a broken collar bone a few months ago. The x-ray tech had to take it 12+ times because HE kept screwing up the damn thing. When I got the bill it was $1100!! and they gave me a care sheet printed off WEB MD. Now I have had a ton of X-RAYS before (like 20+ times) with a check up and it has only ever cost me $200 MAX. When I tried to call the hospital they hung up on me several times before I gave up since insurance paid most of it. IT WAS ********.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Try nearly $2800 just for a doctor to put you asleep for surgery, that isn't counting the $380 in medication used, nor the tools, nor anything else. That was just having the specialist come in for 4 hours.

 

[overlord20]

Dude I had a $200,000+ doctor bill, I know.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Heh, the total bill was up at nearly 700,000 in the end.

 

[overlord20]

Yeah, It is crazy running up into 6 digits.. especially in 6 days haha I felt cool 8)