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In reply to the discussion: I just spent two hours working on complete horseshit. [View all]lostnfound
(16,184 posts)You might have a $100 or $200 charge for your hospital visit in Europe. Here, the stakes are much higher.
Instead, its a system where you have a simple outpatient operation, a bill is generated for $30,000 which is sent through an opaque process to set one that the actual billed charges are $5000 of which you owe $1000 and they apply that to your deductible or not, because they disallow some of the doctors charges who turn out to have been out of network...
A system where the kid who has a childhood cancer spends her twenties fighting and dying of breast cancer leaving tens of thousands of dollars of medical debt on her credit card...
A medicine that costs $8000 per month that you get billed for at $55 a month then $0 then $2000 per week while a shipment is delayed...and you file an appeal every two years to keep coverage.
Real life examples close to me.