Aboogabooga wrote:Captain Smooth wrote:
Will the hospital stay be at least affordable, if it should be necessary then? I mean, that has totally nothing to do with her operation, but I remeber my Grandma had a surgery that wouldn't have required her staying at the hospital, but there were slight complications and the operation took longer than expected, so they kept her overnight to check how she's recovering from anesthesia and the work that's been done. What I mean by that is, you never know, whether as hospital stay might come about, even though it's "ususally" not the case.
No hospital stays are expensive too. They charge you for ice. Literally. ICE!! lol I process insurance claims and you just wouldn't believe how expensive medical care really is and how much they really nickel and dime you. A simple office visit to a general physician without anything actually being done to you and only taking about 20 mins can cost $200 without insurance. Imagine how much a hospital stay where you have a room, bed, linens, food, medication, nurses, etc., would be. It's bad. Hopefully she can appeal it and get it approved or possibly sacrifice the hospital stay. Idk how that works though.
Oh man, excuse me when I say this, but this is fucked up. I get that sometimes people need to pay a certain amount for certain things, but if the health care bill exceeds double of what the average income is and insurances are not willing to help out in some areas (or only with difficulty), somethings going wrong completely.
Over here, we have free health care, although that word has to be taken with a grain of salt.For expecting mothers, children and teenagers everything is free of charge, except for prescriptions, where you have to pay a really small amount (and it's always the same, no matter what kind of medicine you need) and in general operations of any kind are covered, unless you want a private doctor to operate, then you have to pay. There is one area that is getting ever less financing from the genral insurance and that is dental care. The basic stuff is covered and in case of an emergency you're covered as well, but for instance white fillings have to be paid, insurance only covers the toxic dark ones. When I was a teenager braces would have been partially covered, but there was still a huge amount left that we couldn't have paid. Now as an adult I talked to the doctor again and he gave me a realisitc expectation of the costs, since as an adult braces are only "cosmetic proceedure". For the money I would have to pay, I could purchase a flat in the city, or a tiny car, it's absurd.
