Is this a joke I am too not-American to understand?
Yeah. The bill is real but st judes is a charity hospital. Joking the only way to pay his debt is rob a charity
American healthcare is a fucking joke.
I’m so lucky that I live in a country where it’s covered and I don’t have to worry if i get sick.
Yeah I’m about to lose my healthcare for 4 months I’m pretty nervous. Gunna get a physical and my teeth cleaned before it runs out but still a lot can go wrong. Wife’s grandpa was telling me he’s on a pill that’s $10,000 a month if you don’t have insurance
No big deal. You have until August. Just skip the avocado toast until then and you’ll be fine.
what the hell is “other adjustments”???
Free money!
It is when I see this that I am grateful for having been born in a country with 100% public and universal health
It’s not “private healthcare”, it’s the complete lack of any healthcare system in US. In Canada for example, many hospitals are private and you don’t see them complaining about it.
When the state spends more on giving money to oil companies than creating a working healthcare system you know that country is fucked.
fuck america and its dogshit insurance scam industry 🖕 cannot wait for this shitstain country to collapse
For anybody who was confused like me, this is a Nathan J Robinson parody account, not the actual Current Affairs owner.
Do they accept Zimbabwe dollars?
Here’s my American Healthcare story:
- snap finger bone, go to urgent care to get splint
- pay 50ish dollars that day
- 2 months later, get bill for 200 dollars
- ahah! everyone says to ask for an itemized bill! do that
- get itemized bill back that claims the 200 charge is for ‘visiting with a doctor with knowledge of medical history’ (paraphrasing)
- contest charge because I did not see a doctor, and splinting a snapped finger does not require any fucking context at all
- get runaround for 2 months, while being threatened with late fees
- finally they say they will adjust the bill
- get new bill for $201, ‘for a visit that did not include a doctor’ (no fucking joke)
welcome the USA, where healthcare operations are scams
(these are just 2 of the scams in my state, thanks to shell companies when one is shut, another opens)
edit: and in case anyone thinks I paid that shit, I didn’t. I sent them a polite version of a ‘fuck you’ reply. Then covid hit and I never heard from them again.
He should ask for an itemized bill. Then he might only owe 50 grand…
St Jude’s is a charity hospital that does not charge patients or their families. They accept insurance payments only and the rest is covered as charity.
