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If a person is incapable of meeting their own needs for something, say insulin, there's little objection in a safety net that provides for them for the duration of that inability. I'm not challenging the notion of social spending, I'm challenging the idea that it's somehow good policy to pay for the needs of those who are capable of providing for themselves. Quote:
Would I have to get diabetes before my opinion is properly qualified?
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Being a doctor is going to suck.
You can multiply the number of crackheads trying to scam pain medication from their doctors by 10. This country is so fucked. | ||
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They examined it and said it didn't require a stitch. They cleaned it up themselves, put some bacitracin on it, wrapped it in gauze, gave me an antibiotic pill and a prescription for more. That's it. The hospital bill came to over $1100, not including the doctor's bill. When I voiced my great displeasure at that insane rip-off we settled on $125 for the entire hospital bill. Two weeks later I got a doctor's bill for $400, and a week after that another hospital bill for over $350, after I already agreed to a payment in full. That's over $1850 for a small cut that they put bacitracin and gauze on, which I already did at home for free for fuck's sake. All I wanted to know was if it needed a stitch! I already had neosporin and a bandaid on it, they just replaced it with bacitracin and gauze. Are they insane? Where the hell does the doctor get off charging me $400 to put bacitracin and gauze on a cut that's maybe a half inch in size, if that (it was smaller than the width of my pinkie nail). Fuck I'm in the wrong business. I'll do that for $200, that's half price! It's a steal! And the hospital charging me almost $1500?? What that really is is what they'd have charged my insurance. That's what insurance would have paid. They would have paid about $1850 for a small cut I could have easily taken care of myself. These hospitals and doctors are overcharging extreme amounts. It's damned criminal. The prescription cost me $30. That's reasonable. I have no problem paying reasonable bills, but this doctor will not see a dime of that $400 she's charging me unless she agrees to knock that bill down to under $100. What sucks is a month before I got ripped off my brother went to the same hospital after a collision playing softball (cut his nose and got banged up). He didn't raise hell over what they were charging him and instead agreed to a payment plan. He has to pay over $2500 for services that were only slightly more involved than mine, and only because they did concussion tests (edit: found out today it's $5200 he owes, not $2500). Holy shit. I didn't know he had to pay that much or I would have never gone myself; I guess I should talk to my brother more often.
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