Do you have one of those cheap monthly health plans or something?

 

I blame greedy insurance companies.


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palmer, you put one too many stars in the title

and no, my health insurance is not cheap. it's $245/month

 

Johnny Cochran doesn't save lives, and doesn't have the overhead these people do.

You're at the tip of a long logistics trail for those 20 minutes. Having the nurses there, having the doc there, having the right drugs and stuff handy, it costs money.

So what are you gonna do, shop around for a better price next time? What are they gonna do when you complain, thank you for your feedback and ignore it?

 

greg, thats tetanus shot cost the hospital $1.823 ($1.50 of that being federal excise tax). paying $600 for what i could have gotten for $50 at the clinic next door is beyond ridiculous. if you cant see that there is something VERY wrong with the american health care system when walking in the door costs damn near a thousand dollars, after already paying $250/month for health insurance, there is something wrong with you too.

 

Maybe you just need a more baller health plan.

 

firebomb the hospital

 

what the fuck do you mean more baller? i have a $1000 deductible, with max 2000 out of pocket per year, 3 million lifetime, and prescription coverage, and a bunch of other shit. i DARE you to find me something better than that for less money. cheaper than that and you're getting into the $3-5000 deductible range, no prescription coverage, etc.

 

Well first of all, I was kidding (which is what I meant by the wink), you have my sympathies, healthcare prices are ridiculous. For the record, my plan costs me and my employer $348/month (BCBS BluePreferred PPO, not the basic HMO plan that my employer offers and pays 95% of), but I have a strong inkling that premiums are far more expensive here than in the midwest. In-network, my annual deductible is $250 and annual out of pocket max is $1,500. For a hospital emergency room visit, I would pay the deductible + $50, so half of that bill.

 

You should have just ramboed it shut with some gunpowder or a red-hot hunting knife.*

 

I went to the same urgent care twice in one day a few months ago. That was pretty funny.

I didn't get the same doctor, but I got the same nurse. She lol'd.

Still waiting on those bills...

 

Isolating the cost to just the shot is not a fair comparison.

E.g., the pasta they serve at Olive Garden only costs 10 cents per serving, but they charge you $10 for it. Why? 'cause everything that surrounds the pasta costs money.

The problem is that, unlike the Olive Garden, you can't do comparison shopping for medical issues.

That's a structural problem that results in $600 bills for tetanus shots.

Maybe I'm just more experienced with the economic thuggery of the health care system than you. But in a system where you can't comparison shop for cheaper prices, and with a demand for health care that must be met NOW (i.e., your emergency), what else do you expect?

 

Maybe I'm just more experienced with the economic thuggery of the health care system than you. But in a system where you can't comparison shop for cheaper prices, and with a demand for health care that must be met NOW (i.e., your emergency), what else do you expect?

I don't know, Julio down in Columbia Heights does some mean stitch-work on the cheap, I'd rather go to him than the hospital.

 

Not to rub it in, but that would have cost me the grand total of fuck all over here. Gotta love the NHS

 

you're right, assuming i didnt bleed to death in the lobby. (lol i've never seen so much blood in my life as what poured out of my thumb)

 

firebombing is the next step, i'm afraid.

 

You know what this thread shows more than high medical costs?


Boys don't go to the doctor. Ever.


Girls already know this shit. I thought $600 was a bargain. It cost around $800 for a rinse and a glue when I landed in the ER in Wilkes-Barre after meandering into an engine on accident.

 

Boys don't go to the doctor. Ever.

Fair assumption. I had a similar cut to his over the summer. I was out riding a motorcycle the next day with it wrapped in electrical tape. Never been to the ER in my life. Only ever been to the hospital to watch people die.

 

true. this was the first time i'd been to the doctor since i broke my back when i was 14 (aside from dentist, optometrist)

 

Thought so. Us lovely ladies get to go once a year, more if they think they feel something in your chest.

One of my last bills while I was out in Connecticut was about $500 to have a surgeon look at some tests, take a tour of my chest with his fingers and tell me to be on my way.

I'm OK at paying all (which I didn't have to) of that bill to be safe rather than face the worst-case scenario.

 

i'd do it for free

 

I'd wait until your hand heals, though.

 

I wonder how long it would take them to shut down an unlicensed free breast exam clinic.

 

Well, I'm thinking there are state-by-state rules already on the books for this.

thumb is healed. i only lost feeling on the top half of my thumb. bottom half is fine.

Phew. Thank goodness.

 

thumb is healed. i only lost feeling on the top half of my thumb. bottom half is fine.

 

FYI, next time clean it with peroxide and seal it closed with super glue. The Army way! Hurts a bit but does the job and won't bleed your bank dry. http://www.fensende.com/Users/swnymph/refs/glue.html

 

Peroxide is where it's at for deep tissue wounds. That's what I used when I had pins in my bones/skin to set a broken wrist, no problems.

 

Actually, after my little mishap in June, the joke with PaulH and DeLorean was that a little bit of brake cleaner and epoxy around the house would have done the same job without the ER wait.

 

Castor Troy this might offer some help: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.co....com/Insurance/InsureYourHealth/5TipsForHagglingOverMedicalBills.aspx?GT1=33004

Then again it may-not.

 

Sure beats the troop leader leading such a charge...

 

hahaha, thats hilarious, i thought it was real at first but then at the end they gave it way by saying they only focus on younger girls lol, thats too funny

 

You know what gave it away for me? It was from The Onion.