‘Why Is It So Expensive?’
We Asked People From Around the
World What They Think of U.S. Health Care.
Video by Chai Dingari, Adam Westbrook and Brendan Miller
From the comments:
Nan
One day I had a serious hemorrhage and was taken to a nearby public trauma hospital via an ambulance. As the doctor was frantically trying to stop the bleeding in the emergency room, I kept rambling incoherently (under powerful anesthetic) to confirm that the hospital was “in network” – the healthcare workers reassured me “you are fine.”Zezee
When my friend fell and couldn’t get up she insisted that no one call an ambulance. She called her brother and waited – in excruciating pain – but she was more afraid of the cost of the ambulance.Jim
I worked for a major medical company (Think of big health insurer they are all the same) when Obama care came around. Did we worry? Nope, because their profit was built in. healthcare companies just wanted to “reject” preexisting conditions . We knew, all the health plans would go up…listening to our “elected officials”, us lemmings in the office KNEW IT WAS A LIE… everyone knew the cost of insurance would GO UP.We had unpaid claims that sat in our database FOR YEARS, never paying them because in a decade…that 50k is cheaper to process and it would just stay in a “round robin” appeals process that goes on forever. (literally we had claims that SAT unpaid for a decade or more because paying a 50k or 1 million dollar claims/debt from 10 years ago is cheaper, we talked about it openly)… All our executives made huge paychecks, huge paydays….. Its ridiculous. Meanwhile the rules are made by companies to pay as little as possible…I loved working for an insurance company, I had the Cadillac of Cadillac of insurance…. Literally it was the only redeeming quality .