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Not a completely unreasonable headline, considering that an uninsured person would get a bill for something probably closer to $69k than $2.5k. I've gotten one
by telchior 5y ago
Not a completely unreasonable headline, considering that an uninsured person would get a bill for something probably closer to $69k than $2.5k. I've gotten one of those bills before, and IMO the insanity of it cannot be pointed out enough times.
- bpodgursky 5y agoThis is true and the system is incredibly wasteful and dumb, but to be clear those uninsured people would immediately negotiate it down to about $250 by calling and saying "wtf am I supposed to do with this bill".
- olyjohn 5y agoOr they just put you on a payment plan for the rest of your life.
- telchior 5y agoNo. What really happens is that the hospital does a check on whether the uninsured person has any assets. If yes >> garnish the assets. This can include your business, your house, whatever you have. If no >> ok they're poor, let's negotiate it down to the limit of what they can pay. If they're really, really poor, it gets written off... and the other uninsured people bear the cost of that writeoff. That's one of the major reasons that the costs for uninsured people are so crazy; the hospital system is allowed to do that.