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You’re supposed to recommend him to a therapist friend so you can profit share.
AMERICA! Fuck yeeeaahhh!
I mean, I’d say you didn’t fix shit so I ain’t paying.
24 euros for the parking… damn. That is indeed outrageous 🙁
Like a doctor will ever talk to you about money. They always dump that task on a subordinate.
The land of the Free.
This is pretty dark. You couldn’t have made it grandma?
Doctors do not talk to you about money. They have zero idea about the costs of medicine. Their fee is pennies in comparison to what the hospital charges. What will happen is you will have some little twat representative from the hospital come to you at the most inopportune time to talk to you about donating your child’s organs. We’re talking moments after your child has been declared deceased. Then when the dust settles, they’ll come to you talking about your copay and deductible. It’s the hospitals that are blood suckers, not the doctors.
I had an 8mm kidney stone 1/1. Spent 3 days in the hospital, 3 procedures with urologist. Been out for almost a month. No insurance.
Bills so far are 37k and climbing. Fml
Just FYI, a person’s medical debt dies with them. A hospital can try to get it out of the estate of that person (say, if they had life insurance), but you are in no way responsible for someone else’s medical debt.
US is a third world country
I I II II
Not funny
Having just read *Radicalized* by Cory Doctorow….this hits a little different.
This should be under r/FunnyandSad
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This is the actual healthcare system is the US.
Is this some American joke I’m too European to understand?
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Why is this “funny”? Clowns 🤡
America fuck yeah!!
Replace the doctors in white lab coats with board members wearing $10,000 suits. The message is right, but nurses and doctors don’t decide pricing. It’s like blaming the butcher at your local grocery store for the rising cost of food.
In my country they just have you and usually another relative sign a *blank* i-o-u at the hospital reception, otherwise won’t see you in the first place, no matter how urgent. No other profession is complicit in such a predatory collections practice. But it’s lawyers who get all the bad rap.
Note: I’m aware of the difference between the doctor and the hospital. I’m talking about private practice. Doctors choose to have their office there. Part of the service they pay for, is the hospital collect the bills through the most brutal means. Doctors don’t want to know, but directly benefit from it.
One of the doctors should be lying down in the last panel.
I am SO GLAD I don’t live in the US
USA USA USA!
Only in America, haha!! Greatest country in the world my ass!!
Well done America…
How is this “funny”?
It’s not the doctors, it’s the executive in the suit behind them that gets the money.
Say it with me: Unless you co-signed or put your name on paper, debt always dies with a person. The only thing they can go after is the deceaseds estate/assets.
Don’t pay a dead persons debt. Ever.
Edit: and also if it’s a minor, parents are responsible for their kids debts.
The doctors don’t tell him how much the bill is, he gets a letter in the mail couple months later.
“That will be $4,500,000 please.”
“I have insurance. I’ve been paying for 20+ years”
“ok. that will be $4,000,000 please”
USA! USA! USA!
did the son die from asphyxiation because he didn’t have a nose
the parents shouldn’t have to pay a dime to the hospital if their kid dies, maybe then the doctors would be more motivated to save them
>*When a human doctor, after much
bleeding and cupping, finds that a patient has died out of
sheer desperation, he can always say, “Dear me, will of the
gods, that will be thirty dollars please,” and walk away a free
man. This is because human beings are not, technically, worth
anything.*
> *A good racehorse, on the other hand, may be worth
twenty thousand dollars. A doctor who lets one hurry off too
soon to that great big paddock in the sky may well expect to
hear, out of some dark alley, a voice saying something on the
lines of “Mr. Chrysoprase is* ***very*** *upset,” and find the brief
remainder of his life full of incident.* – Feet of Clay.
What about suicide?
ITT: people who like benefiting from a complex and well-funded organization, but don’t want to pay in.
Note: I understand that single-payer is what Reddit really wants, which is fine, but acting like accounts receivable reps or insurance reps at hospitals are horrible people shows a lack of critical thought.
Is this some american joke, that i am to first world country to understand?
This isn’t funny. The reality of our medicine for profit is fucking insane and evil.
There’s not many businesses that can fail to complete their task and still charge you for it. Hospitals really got a pass on customer transaction etiquette.