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blueokapi:

Josh Sundquist- 4 Shocking Facts about US Healthcare

*kicks holes in walls*
I AM SO ANGRY

There are such ridiculously inflated prices for medical care in the states due to how the lawyers from the insurance companies negotiate things behind closed doors with the hospitals. Uninsured procedures don’t even cost the same amount between different hospitals and you end up with cases like

this Arizona woman

who was charged $40,000 per dose for two doses of antivenom, the same antivenom retailing in Mexico for $100 per dose. And she was put through hoops by her insurance for having it administered at an “out-of-network” hospital because she would have DIED in the amount of time it would have taken to get to an in-network facility with her provider. When I was in Ontario I had to go to a walk-in clinic basically uninsured (because I had Manitoba insurance) and pay $40 for the visit, in LA I went to a walk-in clinic WITH insurance and it was “$50 co-pay, $200 if you aren’t insured” like, it’s disgusting, it’s so hard to get even the most basic medical assistance in the States.