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Originally Posted by ExiledFlamesFan
For profit healthcare is a terrible idea. It wasn't that long that us Canadians were whining about our system and wanting our system to be more Americanized. This is what you get. Gouging.
People complain about such long waitlists for everything from CT scans to hip replacements. If you are waiting, you are waiting because it is not urgent. Any urgent procedure/scan will be done and done quickly.
Just for my own curiosity I'll do some quick math regarding this case and gouging:
-Mom's stay was $160,000!!!!!!. This number is insane itself. Unless Mom was in intensive care for 60 days, which she obviously wasn't. An intensive care bed is about $2000/day. A regular bed on a hospital ward is about $750/day. Let's say mom spent a day before her C section, then 5 days after (being generous) as an inpatient recovering. So mom costs $4 500
-The U.S. (I don't even know what that means, government?) picked up the cost for the C section delivery, which was $12,000. This is still high but at least reasonable.
-Baby in in NICU for 2 months. This is expensive. Let's say an average of $2500/day. The baby would be much more expensive during the first few weeks of the stay while being ventilated and requiring 1 to 1 care, but as time went out would be less and less expensive. Total for 60 days, $150 000
-Add in tests costs. Ultrasounds, CT, Xrays, bloodwork, whatever tests they could possibly do. We'll say the total cost is $10 000
All of my numbers are very generous. Total cost: $176 500. Yet the total medical bill was $900 000 according to mom. Wow
American health care: Dolla dolla bills y'all
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Yeah I had a coworker a few years ago who's daughter was born near 4 months pre-mature and spend the first 5-6 months of her life in the hospital as a result. Multiple procedures, round the clock treatment, etc. My coworker said the total "bill" would have been in the neighbourhood of $400k according to one of his doctors.
So yeah, $950k is clearly in crazy town.