Even with insurance, healthcare is too expensive.

[kentuck]

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. And you'll probably receive separate bills from the surgeon and guy

who gave you the anesthesia.

[Aristus]

2. Yeah, healthcare is still outrageously expensive.

So much so that there are people right here on DU who think that because I have a license to practice clinical medicine, I spend my time leisurely tooling around on a golf cart, instead of working 55-60 hours a week.

(Man, I don't even f*****g like golf!...)

I support the ACA, and hope someday we'll have a single-payer health insurance system in the US. I'm also hopeful that under the ACA, costs will begin to decrease at least a little.

While there are some greedy, unscrupulous providers out there who will charge their patients an arm and a leg just to look in their direction, most of us genuinely care about our patients, and despise the outrageous charges that lead to medical bankruptcies. I hope we can soon put this shameful part of our society in the past.

[kcr]

13. I think people only think that about doctors n/t

[jsr]

3. It's obscene.

[burnsei sensei]

4. The Republican Health Care Plan at work--

1. Don't get sick, and
2. If you do get sick, DIE QUICKLY!

Insurance doesn't change anything.
The health care market is still inflated, and we're just feeding the beast that's killing us.
Single payer now.
Of course.

[jsr]

5. +1.

[riversedge]

9. a godzillion kicks

[jwirr]

6. While going through my father's papers I found the bill for my appendicitis operation that was

in or around 1949. It was $90.00. The times they are changing.

[L0oniX]

7. Oh ...it's Aetna. They are rippoffs. IMO they one of the worse. We had to get a lawyer...

to get them to pay.

[riversedge]

8. Perhaps some good can come

from your experience as obamacare needs to convince the younger folks to sign up. You have first hand knowledge of the bills that could happen out of the blue.
I know Obamacare is still too expensive for many--I can see it my own family--the ones who make too much for Medicaid but barely enough to live on. I do not know what will happen but I know my bother can not pay rent and pay the expected insurance for our area each month.

I don't mean to make light of your illness but sometimes an illness can have a silver lining for others. I wish you well.

[progressoid]

10. Rec!

[msongs]

11. you are paying management bonuses, shareholder dividends, phone boiler room salaries etc nt

[Hubert Flottz]

12. My latest visit to the hospital was better than the one before that.

I was treated much better. I really do think that the ACA is working, even if it's not so obvious that it would knock your average Obama hater down and out, like a ball-bat to the head-bone.

The staff treated me with much more respect, than I had encountered there in my recent past visits. Seems that the hospital was very worried about how I felt about my visit this time. I had to fill out a questionnaire before I was released and then I filled out another that came in an Email and in a couple of days after that, a very affable young lady from the hospital called to check up on me and asked if I was satisfied with the care I'd received. First time either of those three things had occurred. I noticed a genuine better general attitude toward myself and I really believe the underlying interworkings of the ACA was the cause of this vast and unexpected improvement.

[spin]

14. I'm on Medicare with an add on Medicare Advantage Plan. Last year I had an operation ...

to open a carotid artery that was 85% blocked. The operation was performed at an excellent University Hospital.

Prior to the test I had to undergo a series of probably very expensive tests to determine if my heart was strong enough to undergo surgery and if there was any evidence of any other Arteriosclerosis including a nuclear stress test.

After the operation, which was successful, I was required to stay overnight in cardiac intensive care.

My total bill including office visits with my primary care physician and office visits at the specialists was exactly $0000.00. No co-pays and no deductibles. (Of course the Medicare Advantage Plan does cost me $250 a month.)

[panader0]

15. Obscene and insane.

[Zorra]

16. I'll post this again: When I asked my Canadian friends how they like Canada's healthcare system,

they shrug and say, "What's not to like? It's free."

[countryjake]

17. +1