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I don't know why you're being downvoted. Everyone tries to lay the problems with healthcare everywhere else BUT the actual cost of the service. My aunt went t

I don't know why you're being downvoted. Everyone tries to lay the problems with healthcare everywhere else BUT the actual cost of the service. My aunt went to the ER for a snakebite. They gave her the anti-venin and let her stay for 12 hours. It cost 46,000 dollars. It was a rattle snake. They do this thing all the time in India for COBRA bites and it's not even close to being that expensive.

joecool1029 8y ago
> They do this thing all the time in India for COBRA bites and it's not even close to being that expensive. US Pharma would say because India doesn't care about medical patents and R&D cost. (Not saying I agree at all, but that's the excuse given)
- zaptheimpaler 8y ago
  Heres an article breaking down the cost of precisely that rattlesnake antivenin [1] Unsurprisingly, its mostly blatant money grabbing. 70% is pure markup that insurers don’t pay but uninsured do. 2% is the R&D cost. Probably for something we invented 100 years ago which makes you wonder just how the R&D continues to cost $100+ per dose decades after its basically perfected anyways. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/09/the-crazy-reason-it-costs-14000-to-treat-a-snakebite-with-14-medicine https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/09/the-c...