Health Care Costs….Check This Out:
These are some of the charges from the hospital (ya the same one that tried to kill me)
I was in for 8 nights
Room (private) $5,184.00
Drugs $7,577.00
“Supplies” $10,000.00
Operating Room (6 hrs) $11,610.00
Recovery Room 1 (hr) $1,041.00
these are only a few of the charges…. But I want to point out a few things lets do it from the top.
Can you imagine the room and service Id have gotten for 5200 bucks a week?
Drugs…Ok this one really got me….they gave me 2 percocet every 3 hrs, morphine via a pump (50mL lasted a day) a total of 21 medrol and about 30 neurontin there is no way in hell that those drugs could come to that total unless they are price gouging (they are)
Supplies…what supplies they changed my sheets every other day, I presume they WASH and reuse those….ok maybe my IV was a supply but 10K for an IV?
the operating room….i wasn’t concious in therre so I have no idea but for that price it better have more controls than the starship enterprise.
recovery room…1000 bucks to put me in a room with a dozen other people where a nurse watches me for an hour while I become conscious again?
These don’t even incluude what the doctor charges or the anestesiologist. The other misc charges pushed my hospital bill alone to over 50K.
So what’s going on here? this isn’t a government subsidized hospital with patients that dont pay why are they price gouging? why are they charging 7K for drugs that could have been gotten at any drugstore for under 500 bucks? hel you could buy them on the street for less moeny.
And at these prices why can’t they get qualified nurses who care and are competent and dont try to kill me?
Yes Im rather pissed……
