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> 1. 25030731 HC RT OXYGEN DAILY CHARGE — $2,132.25.”; >The supplemental oxygen delivered into the nose after surgery, a routine precaution at many hospitals.

> 1. 25030731 HC RT OXYGEN DAILY CHARGE — $2,132.25.”; >The supplemental oxygen delivered into the nose after surgery, a routine precaution at many hospitals. What is wrong with US healthcare in one sentence. two thousand dollars for oxygen is beyond ludicrous. There is no way this cost could be justified.

tomohawk 12y ago
This is a completely rational price given that none of the prices are published, and that the prices tend to be set more on who is doing the paying than anything related to the actual cost. Do an experiment sometime. Pretend that you need an MRI of your head. Call around to the various places that provide MRIs and see if you can get (a) the price, (b) a description of the equipment that will be used so that you will know if it will be a good MRI or an ancient one. It's pretty laughable that we just had a major "reform" of our health insurance system, with lots of lip service paid to cost, and yet there is still no information available to allow people to make decisions based on cost and quality, and this appears to be by design.
- genkaos 12y ago
  somewhat related: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120545569 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205455...
- mplscoder 12y ago
  "Your medical care would be paid for by others. And therefore you would gratefully accept, on bended knee, what was offered to you as a privilege. Your role being responsible for your own care would be diminished."
  - michaelochurch 12y ago
    I've paid (either directly, or by an employer having paid money that otherwise could have gone to me) about $60,000 into the medical insurance system since leaving college. (That's 10 years times $500 per month, which is a low estimate.) I've also paid several hundred thousand dollars in taxes to a government that prioritized blowing up Iraq over protecting us from things that might actually kill us, like cancer and heart disease. Given the amount paid, I see health care as a right, not a privilege. We already have high taxes and high insurance premiums. Yet we live in a society where it's pretty much random whether your insurance even covers you when you get sick.
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- venomsnake 12y ago
  Rational ... way more oxygen than a person can consume costs a couple of bucks ... you need a valve and a drinking straw ...

tomohawk 12y ago

This is a completely rational price given that none of the prices are published, and that the prices tend to be set more on who is doing the paying than anything related to the actual cost. Do an experiment sometime. Pretend that you need an MRI of your head. Call around to the various places that provide MRIs and see if you can get (a) the price, (b) a description of the equipment that will be used so that you will know if it will be a good MRI or an ancient one. It's pretty laughable that we just had a major "reform" of our health insurance system, with lots of lip service paid to cost, and yet there is still no information available to allow people to make decisions based on cost and quality, and this appears to be by design.

genkaos 12y ago
somewhat related: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120545569 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205455...
mplscoder 12y ago
"Your medical care would be paid for by others. And therefore you would gratefully accept, on bended knee, what was offered to you as a privilege. Your role being responsible for your own care would be diminished."
- michaelochurch 12y ago
  I've paid (either directly, or by an employer having paid money that otherwise could have gone to me) about $60,000 into the medical insurance system since leaving college. (That's 10 years times $500 per month, which is a low estimate.) I've also paid several hundred thousand dollars in taxes to a government that prioritized blowing up Iraq over protecting us from things that might actually kill us, like cancer and heart disease. Given the amount paid, I see health care as a right, not a privilege. We already have high taxes and high insurance premiums. Yet we live in a society where it's pretty much random whether your insurance even covers you when you get sick.
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venomsnake 12y ago
Rational ... way more oxygen than a person can consume costs a couple of bucks ... you need a valve and a drinking straw ...