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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Laboratory costs 22,000$? What liquid gold are they using over there as reagent?
The insurance company that has been getting paid for the past decade and a half monthly after hearing about this: “Ummm, actually, did you read the fine text here that states that we can only pay you for a snake bite hospital costs if it was from any snake other than a rattlesnake?”
Fuck me, the dizzying stench of Freedom must be intoxicating.
The best part is, that I’m pretty sure the people who are actually performing all of these services, are getting paid a fraction of the cost of that bill.
Just put taxes towards affordable healthcare and call it Freedom Healthcare or something idk
$80,000 for a pharmacy? What did they prescribe him? The blood of Jesus?
Just got out of an operation for an infected cat bite.
Cost me
17$ gyg burrito
16$ on chocolate bars
3$ can of coke
Thank you australia
Yesterday I went to the hospital after a fall from a motorcycle, I had an x-ray and a visit from an orthopedic and spent an exorbitant amount of 0€😔
in india most treatments of snakebites cost 7usd approximately
This dumb mf forgot to ask for the itemized bill! /s
He should have resisted it on his own maybe he would become snake king now he is just poor and sad
That’s because in 2015, there was only on manufacturer of antivenom and depending on the snake, it takes dozens of vials to treat it. A vial was about 2,500 dollars.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a-153k-medical-bill/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rattlesnake-selfie-results-in-a-153k-medical-bill/)
Poor American 3 World country… so sad
What in the actual hell are those prices?! What kind of miracle tech did they use to justify this?!
wonder what the $462 special services is
https://youtube.com/shorts/b43iUJI4_Ms?si=_IMRa8qpyVily1DU
I can understand your choice. Fair enough.
Find the snake, bite it back!
Oregon Trail 2024
Yup you can make more for your family by dieing with life insurance.
i would have flown to another country to get it fix, then i would still be 150k cheaper
Healthcare facilities regularly jack up prices, then bill insurances at a discounted rate.
USA.
Why even save someone at that point?
MuRiCa
Good. Now change the country.
Positions are like mafia bosses they overcharge to protect you… quite literarily an offer you can’t refuse.
America moment
For comparison, here is a hostpital bill for rattlesnake bite treatment in most European countries:
radiology?
Yeah but emergency services are free … right? You pay taxes to cover this … yes?
These costs are so inflated because they know they are charging insurance companies, it’s so dump.
At least the “special services” were cheap enough though huh? 😜
Americans really are the perfect customers, I don’t know any other country that would accept these prices as easily as they do
Me, seeing that post and laughing with german healthcare.
Welcome to medicine in America….
Honestly God would have to make ready my bed
Not before biting every staff of that hospital.
See, the toxic venom isn’t the reason u lose ur arm and leg.
‘murica, fuck yeah!
How fucking much?
Half of that went to that one radiologist