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This almost feels like an Onion article where all the costs are multiplied by 20. What justifies such huge bills? The article makes it sound like a doctor walk
by interpol_p 12y ago
This almost feels like an Onion article where all the costs are multiplied by 20. What justifies such huge bills?
The article makes it sound like a doctor walked in to ask "How are you feeling?" and then charged $20,000 for doing so.
I've had a few private operations quoted in Australia and the full cost of the operation is usually in the $500-$2000 range. Even a pregnancy through a private hospital was quoted to us at about $4000. (Although we ended up having our first baby delivered for free through a public hospital, which was fantastic.)
- oliwarner 12y agoCompletely agree. These prices are disgusting. Even if this consultant was there for an entire surgery, how can one person justify charging $1m/week? The US desperately needs to walk back the amount their doctors are paid.
- kamaal 12y ago>>doctor walked in to ask "How are you feeling?" and then charged $20,000 for doing so. It would have happened, why would you doubt it? It would have been like he was called in just in case any issue came up. The doctor walks in and asks the most obvious question to the patient "How are you feeling?". The operation ends without needing any inputs from him. But regardless he would have billed the patient for his time. The attitude is, he wouldn't have given any inputs but he did give them their time, which would otherwise be used else where to make the same money so you have to pay even if the actual value added by him was zero.
- interpol_p 12y agoI understand the doctor gave her time — that's fine. It's that the cost for that time seems ludicrous. As I said, the pricing seems multiplied by 20.