Child bitten by a death adder. Antivenom, 600km flight and hospital admission. No charge to patient
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Here in the US that patient would have declared bankruptcy before the plane landed.
My middle school teacher was bitten by a death adder in the early 2000’s in Australia while hiking. She said she broke her foot, and waited for hikers to show up, but the last thing she remembered was being bitten by and stared to fade. Two hikers found her, called for help, and she was helicopter to the emergency room.. and treated. She was more amazed that everything was covered by the government.
The picture looks like a grown man?
Socialists will tell you this is good, but how are you going to pull yourself up by your bootstraps without 48,000 in medical debt motivating you to work 3 jobs?
Even the children are bigger in Australia I guess.
Fuck yeah RFDS is a fantastic charity and saved a lot of lives in very remote areas. Please donate to them if you can.
Is Australia’s healthcare system similar to the NHS? As in universally covered by the taxpayer?
American immigrant to Australia; medicare for all is not only possible, but I can’t imagine life without it. Americans should be fed up. Americans should demand better.
I love a sunburnt country…
America…. oh you sneezed that’ll be $84000 please
A donation to the Flying Doctor service would be the appropriate thing to do.
Child?
crazy to think that here in the US it would probably be cheaper to die.
Royal Flying Doctors Service is the second most busy airline in Australia and has never charged for a flight.
In the US a plane ride like that would cost hundreds of thousands. Insurance probably wouldn’t even cover it.
In the US, they’d owe $500k to the insurance company. It’d be cheaper to die.
You mean human lifes more important than money? Interesting.
Every time some Americans tell us a story about their health insurance, what they had to pay, how they are using their 10 vacation days for sick leave or how someone of their family died because some medication was too expensive…
Or how they have to divorce before treatment because the debt will crush the whole family…
Are you guys okay over there??? Don’t you want to uhh live a better life???
What happens if you don’t know what type of snake bit you?
You get what you vote for and we voted and keep voting in favour of a great universal healthcare. This is what taxes are for and should be for.
Huh. Wonder why they call it a death adder?
Less CEOs get assassinated over there too.
But now they’ll miss out on the chance to take personal responsibility for being bitten by a snake!
i guess this country doesn’t spend $750,000,000,000 on their military each year. I imagine that their population is healthy because they can get accessible healthcare . But my country has large submarines and large boats, and a pentagon.
Isn’t it great that all this healthcare stuff has to be explained to Americans that yeah, healthcare works this way
Straya!
I’m also a child at 35. A wee bairn, if you will.
RAZER take note
Meanwhile, in the United States, a medivac flight will cost you between $12,000-$25,000 and that’s just a 52 mile flight.
What!? No charge? Are they trying to crash the economy!?!?
/s
With something named DEATH ADDER, you know anyone bitten gon die. It just adds death to your life. Nothing more dangerous than that
I identify as a child
Royal Flying Doctor Service is an non-profit organisation with over 70 aircraft and 1,200 staff that operate over the entirety of Australia. They rely on generous donations and government assistance to provide all sorts of care to remote Australians at practically zero cost. Not all heroes wear capes after all.
# “In 2023/24, 32,949 Australians were flown by our expert medical, nursing, and aviator teams” – RFDS Website.
Yep, that’s what a healthcare system should be. Same in NZ and the UK and the Nordic countries and most of Europe and…..
I love how for Americans the most noteworthy thing about this is the billing. Not the Royal Flying Doctor Service in and of itself.
That child is 6’2” and looks to rocking a 5 o’clock shadow.
Can’t park there mate.
dude the RFDS is such an amazing service.
Clearly not a child. Fuck off.
This was copied off an earlier post, likely a bot, so STOP RESPONDING TO IT!
So, not the United States.
17 checks out.
However, what was he bitten by? Death adder? Isn’t that the bad guy in golden axe?
Kid? This dude looks like he’s about to have a midlife crisis
pretty sure in the US it’s cheaper to get it amputated than to get antivenom
Child? That person looks 30