Next they’re gonna charge you for the paper and ink they had to use to print out the bill and the electric bill for using the computer they had to type it on.
They will also charge you just for considering that hospital out of all the others and for everytime your eyes fall on them ... from the moment you walk in or wheelchair in .
As a wise man once said, you literally cannot satirise the US healthcare system, because it’s already the most ludicrous version of itself it can possibly be
@@johncheetham4607 If you mean the United States when you say America, then yeah, I'm pretty sure the only thing that makes us a world leader is our military, as we are behind on a lot of other things in the United States. I'm from the U.S.A., and I don't share that foolish arrogant pride that some believe we are the best country in the world.
@@johncheetham4607 No place is perfect, though I'd rather be in Sweden, as that's currently listed by worldwide judging census as the best place to live right now, at least in multiple different census's.
That's not at all an exaggeration. Seriously, it's a rubber balloon. Might be slightly thicker latex than the kind you blow up for birthday parties, but essentially that's all it is. They probably buy a box of 100 of them for $50.
My friend showed me his bill for his baby boy in college. They charged him something like a "skin to skin" contact charge because his wife held the baby after he was born. Its absolutely crazy how the medical field just makes up numbers and people have to just follow them.
when your newborn is put on your boobs making skin to skin contact. Crazy thing is that most hospitals are considering it mandatory to get connection between mother and a baby, of you no hospital in Europe is charging money for it@@The-Crusty-Man
@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS um you not watch youtube??? Lmao yhey have videos asking about costs and wages etc and all europeans were flabbergasted. Id like to know where you MISSED THAT.
Your comment made me so sad 😞 I’m English and our NHS is struggling right now due to funding cuts, it takes so long to see certain specialists etc but not matter how bad it is I’ve never had to avoid seeing a dr when I needed one because I couldn’t afford it. A sick person shouldn’t have to check their bank account to figure out if than can afford to seek medical help. I am honestly so sorry ❤ I hope you’re doing ok
That's actually cheap. BAck in 2003 I needed brain surgery after a major car accident. It was cheaper for me to fly to Japan (my wife's family lived there), live there for 6 months and have the surgery and fly back than it was to have the surgery alone here in the U.S. And what's worse, many of the qualified surgeons here in the U.S. didn't want to do the surgery because they considered it to dangerous. The Japanese doctor who did it thought it was just another Tuesday. I still remember the nurse smiling down at me while she was gassing me, she was counting backwards and then swatted me on the forehead and the next thing I knew I was waking up.
i mean flying to japan is not that much, its expensive sure but not 50k expensive so obviously going to japan is cheaper if you are spending 50k versus 5k or whatever it cost in japan
Well to be fair, we should expect brain surgery to be more expensive than child birth. If you wanted to tell that story then you should’ve just told it without comparing it to the cost of child birth because the answer to calling it cheap in comparison is…Duhhh😒😆
In India, the hospital bill for delivery is at most 100 dollars, and it covers all other charges. And there are a lot of Government hospitals and citizen schemes which will do it for free and won't charge a penny
My late grandmother was born in 1918. Her parents were egg farmers. They paid their doctor in dozens of eggs for home visits. Healthcare has been hijacked in this country. The American Medical Association started it....
thats so true, my friend told me how much he paid to remove his wisedom teeth which costed $2000 USD. When down here where I live it only cost likw 200 - 400 TTD 1 US = 6.7TTD so round it to 7 . it's so sad
I live in india, I never went to a dentist for my entire 33 year old life. Is it compulsory for you to visit a dentist, they show it in so many American movies and tv shows
even with pretty decent insurance I think we were charged 10-15k for each kid, and we had two in the last two years. The crazy thing of it, was when our first was born, they put an 8k bill in the name of our daughter, so it took them 9months to bill us for it and sent it to collections because it was overdue. WELL YA, we didn't even know about it to put it on a payment plan. You billed a 1 day old kid that didn't even have a SSN yet!
they have to charge 45000$ to some dumb celebrities and influencers so the people who are charged 15k are feeling they're getting a good deal. Although in reality the hospital admins are laughing all the way to the bank and on the way back to their yaght.
@@GTX311 sadly it isnt as easy as just "adding universal health care" since the companies that are charging these absurd prices just use lobbying which is basically just legal bribing to government officials to influence policies that benefit their company while fucking over 99% of the US population out of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a household
Did you have any recourse for cancelling the debt? I know the common advice given when collections contacts you about a deceased families member's debt, is that you are not responsible for it unless you make the mistake of accepting it or paying for even a cent of it. Collections of course will not tell you this and may try to get you to pay anyways. In the case of the baby's debt, maybe a similar argument could be made to get them to drop it. Either way, starting off as a 1 yoe baby with bad credit already lol
Its always a good idea to ask for an itemized receipt to better review every detail of the charges. One is to make sure there are no duplicate charges and the other is to avoid being legally scammed by the hospital in general.
You've never played this game have you? "Oh you're right sorry we did double charge you, but we found that we forget this charge, that'll be an extra 3000
5 of the top 10 medical universities in the world are located in Europe, like Cambridge or Heidelberg. And if I remember correctly, Europe has much more medical universities than any other region in the world. (But don't pin me down on the last one.)
Many times cheaper, but the average american still doesn't think of this option. And not just France, many other EU countries with just as good private healthcare that will take care of you for 2-3k. And even if you give birth in the US, at this same place that charges you 50k all inclusive lets say, its 10% or less of this price if you plan in advance and not just wake up that you're about to give birth and ring the hospital. They'll LEGALLY put up these inflated prices knowing you got no other choice. That's the main problem, that they take advantage of the financially illiterate by bribing politicians to have these laws put in place that allows them to move the price up and down by 10-50x when they see fit.
When we had our kid here in the Philippines, we went to a pretty standard hospital but our son needed a few expensive tests because of heart complications. Even with all that, our bill was less than $2000 and it got slashed to roughly $800 after our RECENTLY PAID insurance kicked in. Mind you, we only paid 6 months worth of insurance, about $30.
1 month of insurance over here in America is like $600, so over here, you would have paid $3,600 for insurance, plus $2000 yearly deductible. Then you'd have to pay a couple thousand more to the hospital anyway because insurance won't pay it all.
I mean philipines per capita is like 20 times less that us so its like paying almost 40k and it got slashed to 16k but atleast u are paying for expensive stuff not the bare minimum lmao
I think that for our three kids put together we paid about $150 CAD to the hospital. Most of that was for parking, couple of sandwiches for myself in the cafeteria and $24 was for a private room which we requested with all three kids but only got charged for it once because the other two times there were none available. Yeah yeah I know, "It'S nOt ReAlLy FrEe, YoU pAy FoR iT iN tAxEs!" but you know what? I'd happily have a little bit skimmed off the top of my paycheck if it means I don't have to worry about insane out of pocket expenses. Things like having children, getting cancer and serious car accidents are life altering enough as it is, nobody should be bankrupted at the same time.
We pay for it in taxes too, it's called medicaid, but it's only for people who are under a certain income bracket. So getting married here is out of the question because you legally become the same income, so just have your gf be on medicaid with no income and it's 100% free too. even the cafeteria food. all the rooms were private for the maternity ward too, idk how people go through that in a room with other strangers.
Canadian health care sucks. My brother has been waiting 18 months for a simple ultrasound. When I was a kid I broke both arms at the same time and had to wait over 24 hours to even see a doctor. The wait times are absolutely terrible and the standard of care is determined by the federal government. Here in the US, you can literally go wherever you want and have whatever you want done. Hardly any waiting. There is give and take with both. Canada has a literal dictator controlling your thoughts via the media. You guys were the most brainwashed country in the world during covid. I agree these charges are crazy and health care shouldn't bankrupt you, but Canada is no beacon of light in the Healthcare department. Far from it.
@@mervunitNot really, even Medicaid is limited to what they'll pay for and even then some doctors still won't take it 😂, I remember when I needed 2 root canals and best they would cover is extractions
I had a home birth last year. It cost me $6k out of pocket and that covered ALL of my prenatal visits (I believe there were about 14), delivery, and 5 follow up visits post-birth to check on me and my son - all included, $6k out the door. Would you believe that after I had my son and submitted everything to my health insurance they wouldn't reimburse me? I reminded them that if I'd gone to a Massachusetts hospital they'd be billed approximately $40k and they'd pay it. I'm asking for a measly $6k back (I saved them money!) - this should be pennies to a large health insurance company - and I've received nothing. My son is now 14 months and I'm STILL arguing with them on this.
They have a nexus they will not give you a penny. You going to a hospital and spending 40k is more profitable to them because their profit is not just from insurance
@@KatiTheButcher Illegal, how? What happens if you ran out of power on your cell phone to call an ambulance and you are stuck at home? I don't see how the govmt can reasonably enforce such a law. Out pops the baby on to your couch and they can't do s**t to you about it.
One reason behind the high cost of healthcare in the US is that health insurance obscures the actual costs. Imagine if you grocery shopping, and there were no prices listed. When you got to checkout, the grocery store coordinated with your "food insurance company" to figure out how much to charge, which items were covered by insurance, and what you had to pay out-of-pocket. Not only does this add a additional layer of costly bureaucracy, but it makes it much harder to comparison shop since the prices are opaque. Thus no incentive to lower them. This isn't the only reason for the insane costs, but it's a major one. Let's stop thinking of healthcare as a "system" in which we are helpless pawns, and start thinking of it as an "industry" where you are the almighty customer - acting with agency. Laws need to change, but start by shopping around, asking what stuff costs beforehand, and acting bewildered when you can't get a straight answer.
Respectfully disagree. The problem is a medical Theocracy, they respect Dr's here like they respected priests in Ireland in 1920s. They can do no wrong. They serve 'Medicine' , it's a calling they say. Your better off reporting reporting the Vatican than the AMA for fraud. It's what it is.
@@ANonyMouse627 Certainly true for some things. But for something like a birth, we have 9 months to plan. I'm an American living overseas, and I've noticed that it's more straight forward; people here do research the prices at different hospitals, consider quality, and then decided where they want to give birth.
@@costley51 Except in the US, a birth in any hospital will run you minimum $50,000. The average person simply can't afford to pay out of pocket for a hospital visit. Things with inelastic demand like housing and healthcare do not work like toasters or laptops in a commercial market. No matter how much people shop around the price of housing and healthcare is still gonna keep increasing. A universal payer or cost controls is the only way to make healthcare accessible for everyone.
Yep absolutely crazy! My wife and I had our first last year and in December we finally make our last payment on the baby. That’s even after insurance too. People are definitely over charged by the American healthcare system.
That's unfortunate especially when that money could have been spent on a college fund or mortgage if healthcare was cheaper . And yet, there are still people wondering why millenials and Gen Z are marrying later and later, not marrying, marrying but having just one child or none at all etc. Some people can't imagine how scary it can be for someone to even visualise themselves taking on 45K in debt to have a child when they still have a student loan hanging over their head.
The US healthcare system is a joke. This is exactly why my mother decided to give birth to me at home instead of a hospital. Also, I don’t want children due to the expenses. My college tuition doesn’t even cost as much.
@@مصعبأدم-ر2مit’s so true. I’ve been in Columbia for a month now. It’s amazing here and the money here is like Monopoly money lol. Everything is so fucking cheap.
In Germany the healthcare pays: Medical care during pregnancy, including prenatal care Inpatient or outpatient delivery or at home Supply of medicines, bandages and remedies related to pregnancy and birth Costs for midwifery assistance Birth center: There is a flat rate operating cost for births in a birth center, which must be covered by statutory health insurance companies. If you have a private Room, you pay 100€ each day.
@josephsade3423 it's funny because living America (sadly), I know people who legitimately would believe such a thing to be socialism. Honestly the amount of Americans that are genuinely retarded is actually kinda scary. So much so that part of me thinks that it's all by design. After all it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the more stupid and ignorant the masses, the easier they are to control. Maybe that's been Uncle Sam's strategy all along; brainwash the masses through subtle but relentless indoctrination through media, talking heads and infiltrating any public discourse with carefully curated talking points created by paid think tanks whose sole purpose is to come up with propaganda that is effective. Those like me that still retain a portion of the critical thinking are now easier to isolate monitor , and "deal with" should we ever stand in Uncle Sam's way. Once such means of doing this is to call literally anything opposing the Neo-Liberal status quo "socialist", even in cases where it clearly is not; and because most Americans barely understand their own history let alone that of old and complex political ideologies , of how the European mindset came about as a result of thousands of years of history, wars, revolutions, philosophy, and so on. As a real life example of just stick in lala land many Americans are , I live in the stare of Michigan. It's actually one the easiest states to locate of a map or globe due to our unique geographic shape as that of a mitten or a hand. We also host one of tge nations most renowned Universities, and college football teams, and we gave birth to the American automotive industry. Despite my state being anything but an obscure backwater, went I went out west to Yellowstone national park one year on vacation with my parents after graduating high school, we met a couple from somewhere in the southwest. I wish I was joking when I say that when they asked where we were from and we said "Michigan" , their response was a look of confusion followed by the question of "I don't know what that is". But I bet you they can talk all day about how government funded Healthcare is evil and socialism. Because our taxpayer dollars clearly have more important places to go than the health and wellbeing of the people, a population know around the world as the most obese and unhealthy.
Americans don't know what Socialism is! the at least not the one that scream it in the wrong time! like that dude who replied to u! in Sweden we have i think longer as its 50/50 as my brother had more then 15 weeks!
@@Ohnonono123 Yes, and isn’t that better than paying for healthcare twice (first through paying for insurance, and then through the out of pocket expenses that are still ridiculously expensive)
Not to mention you have to pay tax on all that, and you have to repurpose a whole room in your house as a nursery, meaning you need a crib and decorations and all that, and you need to buy food and water and all that, not to mention you have to pay taxes on all those purchases. American healthcare is good quality, but it’s EXTREMELY expensive. Not to mention you have to put enough money aside to pay your income tax.
@@CarpetHater abortion isn't illegal if ur raped or ur life is in danger, you just made that up stop misinforming people. By federal law abortion is available when its in those regards when it comes to rape or if it is a danger to your life. However, abortion depending on the state you in if its not a threat to your life or it wasn't due to sexual assault / rape, you have to convince them why you need it as some states view it as unnecessary termination of life.
@@generalkenobi5173 Not in Missouri as i can see, in a lot of other states where there is a near total ban the only exceptions are if the life of the mother is in danger, there are 13 states that has that.
Time for the common people to rise up and say enough is enough. Things have gotten out of control here in America. Other countries see us as financial prisoners.
In Canada I was billed $300 for a private room. After my work insurance, I ended up paying only $30 for my first child. I paid more for parking than they charged me for having a baby!
murica hospital parking: we provide valet parking for only 13$ per hour, and the second option will be a low price of 50$ if you park in our parking without using our magical valet service.
Ima safe this video and show all my uncles and aunts that nag on me why I don't have a kid yet. That's a new vehicle or a good down payment for a house.😂
Always had a dream to go to America, but after seeing this video, never felt more grateful for being born in India lol😂..... planning to stay here now😂😂😂
Are you kidding me? I’ve seen several videos of people from India dying horrific deaths due to rabies. Yet you afraid to come to America? That’s laughable
If you work there, and stayed healthy, you can go home with $40k a year. Just don't permanently live there. I have once worked in Nashville for 4 months and decided not to continue, so I basically made some money and just take it home before my health gets worse. Tips for people that want to work there : 1. Buy/Cook healthy food (avoid junk foods) 2. Find apartments that's close to train station or bus station. (Will help you a lot) 3. Don't befriend alcoholic people. (They won't help you, but keeps bringing trouble). 4. Don't accept the offer of 'New promising Company interested on taking you'.
lol that’s dumb, 50K USD in the US for a baby….here in India you could have a baby with 1000 to 1500 USD in almost any state of the art hospitals where they would take care of you very well.
@@DrFranklynAnderson yeah but it's fucking useless and i've herd in some articles that after someone sued someone for hurting them and winning (and thus getting a lot of money) so they can pay the hospital bills, the insurance companies that they subscribed to (i don't really know what it's called) got mad and sued THEM instead for not using the insurance
Insurance won't solve the ridiculous prices. People have been giving birth for all of human history without government handouts. It just shouldn't cost that much in the first place.
US hospital be like : Doctor visit you (for 30 seconds asking if you feeling well or not) = $1,999.90 per-visit Nurse telling you to take your medicine = $999.90 per-service One band aid from pharmacy = $ 499.90 Vitamin C in a capsule = $199.90 per-capsule Total medical services $ 25,499.00 But if you have an insurance, you only need to pay for $ 1,000 (still more expensive than other countries medical services WITHOUT insurance)
All these would be just less than 500$ without insurance still get decent room for 2 days or 3 in private hospitals. Govt, it's different story. It could be even less but as it is way less and sometimes free, there will be lots of people for services.
All these would be just less than 500$ without insurance still get decent room for 2 days or 3 in private hospitals. Govt, it's different story. It could be even less but as it is way less and sometimes free, there will be lots of people for services.
All these would be just less than 500$ without insurance still get decent room for 2 days or 3 in private hospitals. Govt, it's different story. It could be even less but as it is way less and sometimes free, there will be lots of people for services.
@@savanthsunnyt bro this is just a completely false statement. I just visited a doctor without insurance for a non emergency visit and it was $900 for them to give me some 800mg ibuprofen and to tell me that I needed to schedule another appointment for wrist surgery. The wrist surgery was roughly 20 thousand dollars so here I am with a fucked up wrist that isn't getting fixed.
Bhaya medically bohot-bohot lucky hain apan log. Log bahar se bhi aate hain apne yaha medical procedures karane, phir 4 star hotel mein hafte bhar rukke 1st class flight se ghar jaate hain🤣🤣
Lakin dhire dhire hum safed gavaron ki raah pr aa rhe hain.. ab har acha hospital, hospital kam or 7 star hotel zyada hai. Doctor se bat krne ko Khali 2000 lgte
My last baby costs us... let me calculate... 0 euros. Full hospital delivery, emergency, with anesthetics, no C section, private room (duh, there are no shared rooms for delivery!), etc.
Thats the cost of US citizens paying a much lower tax rate. In countries where medical care is free/cheap, that means that they fund this medical care either through taxes, or the gov pays for it because the price of labor is very cheap Take most eastern european countries, for example. Their medical care is basically free. Why? Because their doctors get paid nothing, so its easy for the gov to step in and just pay them their very low salaries. In US, however, people have very high salaries, especially once you get to professionals of any field. Its nothing like in Europe where everyone gets paid more or less the same. No, in America a new anesthesiologist, for example, could be looking at like a $100k starting salary. Now, because America does not tax their citizens that much, the gov doesnt have the money to pay their highly paid doctors such a salary. Although America could decide to take the west european approach and just tax the heck out of everyone, and make healthcare free, but many americans are against that, as am I. I'd rather my healthcare be expensive, but my wage to be significantly higher than our lesser european brothers. This differences in incomes is what allows americans to pay these obscene medical bills... And its fair towards people who dont accrue any medical expenses
lets be real, even with the broken healthcare system, vast majority of americans are incomparably better off than almost all Europeans. Europeans have all these goodies like healthcare, paid leaves, etc. They got the full package. But they just broke as hell... Especially the middle class. You take any profession side by side, and you often see 2x or 3x the difference, even when comparing to "rich" countries like Denmark/Norway/Switzerland. My buddy recently immigrated to outskirts of Paris. He loves it. Not because they pay good, but because with his American salary he feels like a king. $10k a month is common in US even for someone just entering the field, but in France, etc, such a salary is akin to a CEO of a bank
@@artyomarty391 thats a matter of diferent economies, but majority of europe still offers a way better quality of life, you can earn alot but then if you have to spend alot aswell then the quality of life isnt that great While in europe you earn less compared, but you also pay less and end up saving more in some cases, depending on profession and countries in europe amd etc But indeed its smart to take advantage of the diference in economy, earn salary of a bigger economy and spend it on a smaller economy and you have a great quality of life, its same as someone from netherlands or norway or such earning that salary while living in a country like portugal or greece or etc
@@diogopereira1475 its not that in America things cost more... Many countries in Europe are way more expensive... Its just that in US you will always be a small fish in a large sea, because in order to become a large fish, you would need to earn millions a month... Salaries are extremely high in US especially when you compare mid-upper classes. So its hard to become rich, when you live among the rich But becoming someone in many European countries is much easier (with an American salary), as even things like having a car are often seen as a luxury. And I am not talking about eastern european countries, I mean countries like France. By the way, the only thing that costs less in western Europe compared to US, is property, and services. And this difference is not that big... Everything else from cars, to clothes, to even food and especially tobacco/alcohol, is more expensive in western europe And when comparing the two, the actual difference in incomes matters. Is it 10%? 20%? In my experience, for mid to high level professionals like IT, doctors, lawyers, professors, experienced technicians, etc. The difference is something like 100%. In other words, the American counterparts take home twice as much money Even if life in Europe is cheaper, it aint ever going to be twice as cheaper... especially not when, as I stated above, many things cost more
@@gomedelzlaty3981 If it was provided by the government free of charge that’s called socialism which exists in many forms in the US but yet they act so hypocritical about it.
@@robertvazquez2964 Capitalism is an economic system socialism is a government system. Both exist in the United states. I am glad we don't employ socialism to the fullest extent because I have a concept of ownership. However, socialized healthcare would benefit us greatly.
@@FishteStank yea just sucks for people who purchase under an hoa, definitely can’t feel like they fully own something when someone tells them what to do with their house.
The US healthcare system is flat out ridiculous. As a US citizen, sometimes I wish I lived in Canada for that reason alone. I hope that young lady who referenced those insane bill payments isn't a single mom cause I didn't hear her mention one time regarding her child's dad assisting with those payments.
Welcome to America, my friend! It’s not what it’s cracked up to be here. I’m 35, and my friends with kids tell me not to rush to have babies. I know why. America’s hard bro, especially with children 😅😅😓😫
The joke is that you get pregnant and go on a holiday 8 months later, as it is LITERALLY CHEAPER TO GO ON A HOLIDAY TO AUSTRALIA FOR MONTHS AND GIVE BIRTH THERE.
@@ilyarepin7750 if you're not poor you can afford to have it. If you're working a crappy job for crappy pay, quit your job and live off the government and be a stay at home mom. Just don't get married because then both of you count as the same income. Then whoever is making the money claims the other person as a dependent and you get even less taxes taken out plus the child tax credit. You don't have to pay for child care because you're not working so you can take care of the child. It'll even cover doctor visits for the child up to a few years.
@@mervunit Truly spoken like someone who has never had to deal with the US healthcare system. The medicaid cut off is about half of a single bedroom apartment's rent where I live. You can make too much to qualify for medicaid and definitely still be way too poor to afford it out of pocket or even afford insurance in general. I would have to be homeless for my income to be low enough for medicaid.
My first born cost me $5.00 which I had to pay before I left. I had a private room. I was a navy wife. Though I think I also had to have like 6 or 7 pregnancy tests including the one when I was in actual labor. It's the military insurance. They are weird
@@normaowens7340Even if he did, as long as it was within the rules of war, it's not the same as murder. The people to blame for the damage caused by American imperialism are its politicians and the military industrial complex.
When my wife and I had our first kid, the only thing that wasn’t covered by universal healthcare was the birth certificate. They even covered the cost of the airlift to the children’s hospital 200 miles away to figure out why he was having seizures because the hospital he was delivered at didn’t have the proper equipment in their NICU.
@@evilsharkey8954 When we had our second by c-section, they waived the regular charge for my wife to have a private room because she had history of postpartum depression and psychosis with the first.
Here in the US we already pay out the kazoo for taxes. I'd be all for universal health care if it didn't meant increased taxes. But the problem is the government here in the US is a shitstorm and would just use it as a reason to grab 90% of your paycheck and screw you over. I personally think a easy solution that wouldn't require massive new programs to be implemented would be to just make it illegal for medical providers and insurance companies to charge more than a small percentage of profit over what the fair market value of the materials and labor costs are. That way they can only charge you at most like $20 for the rubber gloves they used, and not $2000.00 like I've seen in some cases and rip people off like crazy. But the politicians are more than likely benefiting from kickbacks with the way things work now so they have no incentive to fix it.
@@izaicslinux6961 Unfortunately, there really isn’t a way to fund universal healthcare without increasing payroll taxes. Of course, the cost of healthcare would go down dramatically, and insurance wouldn’t be necessary for a lot of people. Without insurance as a major benefit, employers would have to offer higher pay or other benefits to attract good workers. Taxes wouldn’t have to be anywhere near 90%. The only time taxes were that high was during the Great Depression and only on the super rich. They’re less than 50% in most European countries with universal healthcare, better schools, AND robust social safety nets. Personally, I’d rather pay more in taxes and none on health insurance and be guaranteed that nobody dies because they can’t afford healthcare.
The first group of charges are facility fees they charge you for the use of the equipment and drugs. The last three are charges for the doctor’s services. First the anesthesiologist who administered the anesthesia. (I did medical billing for 25 years and worked for an anesthesia practice and that charge was cheap. You are charged a set rate for every 15 minutes of care. Average charge for placing and monitoring an epidural for a normal labor is about $5000. I have seen them as high as $35,000.) The last two bills are the OB charges for delivering the baby and the application of the dilation device. But Medicaid is available to expectant mothers. All you have to do is apply. Then you won’t have a giant bill.
In Sri Lanka, at a Government hospital (which are having the most skilled doctors) would cost you absolute 0! Also, post delivery the government will run follow up clinical sessions and home care nurses again entirely FREE! :)
A family friend of mine just had a baby and her child needed to stay in the NICU for some days or weeks, and her overall bill was about $3 million. That’s not an exaggeration - thank goodness she has insurance.
you might as well hire a full time doctor and a team of nurses for the year, plus purchase all the needed equipment for that amount... and build a nice house with the left over money for that bill
@kyle18934 that's not bad idea. Groups of expecting mums could actually do that and split the cost. Especially, if they are expecting in different months etc.. they wouldn't be time restricted either
generally speaking, any intensive care unit for an adult will cost at around $5k+ per day of stay, I would imagine more for a child. This is just for staying, without any surgeries. Some facilities it might be 5k, some 10, some 30, but usually its 5-10k But this isnt the market price. This is what the hospital will bill you, if you werent insured. The market price for this stay is what the insurance company ends up paying, and its usually 10-50 times less. In this case probably around 200k
In Britain its not only all medical care is free but they will also give you a whole heap of things for free to get you started. Not to mention all the after support you can also get which is again all free.
True. its just that lets be real, who wants to live in Britain with its low opportunities and low salaries? You might have better freebies, but I think most people would just choose the overall higher incomes, and income opportunities, that you see in the US
What's funny, is if you have insurance and these bills get forwarded to the insurance company the insurance company can go "hell no... that's outrageous" and the hospital will go "oh... ok =(... " and change the charge rate to 1/10th of the original rate. It's only as an individual that you are powerless and the hospital will destroy you.
That baby better become the president wtf!. They charged me 880 bucks at the emergency making me sit and wait 2 hours just to say I have wax build up in my ear. Hospitals are a joke.
Pro tip: Don't just accept the bill and pay! Search-up medical-bill negotiators/advocates, since they negotiate significant discounts (even more than half of the bill off!), for a fraction of the original bill.
this. I've negotiated hundreds of bills back like 5 years ago. We were a personal injury law firm, but part of our work involved helping clients without insurance and getting the medical providers reduce costs. Prices can be reduced by about 20-30% with almost no negotiations. Like, you just write a letter asking nicely, and almost all providers will comply. If you want over 50%, takes a bit more back and forth Sometimes the reductions would go as much as 98%. Really depends on a case by case basis of the person you're dealing with. The lawyer I worked for was extremely persisten and wouldnt take no for an answer and would drag everything out for every additional dollar, so the reductions usually ended up, on average, 60%, although we aimed at around 80% But yeah, I advise everyone to first try to reduce it themselves, or get a professional. I would bet that if I had 10 cases in front of me right now, and I sent a template letter to all these 10 medical providers of different clients, asking for a 40% reduction, at least half of them would get instantly approved for at least a 25% reduction
@@theguyinurcloset69420 That depends on the company. Those I read about charge a percentage of the original bill, but I was surprised that some charge by the work-hour. But hey, that's still probably less than the 20-50% price-cut they report to provide.
In India, the State governments will give the mother $10 to $70 (in Kerala) for having delivery in Government Hospitals. Any kind of treatments are free of charge too. If you go to Private Hospitals, it is different, they will charge $500 upwards for child delivery. They also bill ridiculous items as shown in this video.
Couple years before covid struck, a dental office in California wanted to charge me 13.5K for replacing front 2 teeth with implants. I just ran away as fast as I could.
Same thing happened to my wife and I and almost ran to either Canada or Mexico to go deliver the baby, but we had a premie baby so that plan went out the window and paid over 40k
That's insane. We did a home water birth for $3K with a certified midwife in 2020. Kid popped out in 10 min from full dilation just like our last one. No drugs and very minimal pain. We suggest hypno-birthing as well. Best advice is to get your general health and mentality on track before having a child and things should go smoothly. We are in the western US btw.
The funny thing is that people used to do this just at home. For free. Ironically the infant mortality rate for the US is pretty crap for such obscenely expensive costs.
Well playing devil's advocate, I think that it wasn't your first kid is key. I've heard plenty of stories about a woman's first-born child being an extremely difficult and arduous process. The first kid she was in labor for easily 24+ hours. Second kid she was in labor for a few hours and the kid came out in no time.
@@bonvoyage9695Yes they can. They can stop excessive bleeding, resuscitate you or your baby, perform an emergency C section if the baby is stuck and/or your health becomes critical, lower dangerous blood pressure spikes, etc. If you have excessive bleeding at home, you’d better hope the ambulance can get you to the hospital in time. Modern C sections are the main reason why childbirth is no longer the leading cause of death of young women in most of the world.
@@-Subtle-dude its the natural way, the f u talkin about...when there was no doctors or amything ppl always had babies, u think nature is dumb. To this day some ppl give birth on the streets and they're fine.
My wife has had multiple surgeries to fuse vertebrae in her spine or remove bits of damaged disks, every time it's 12 to 15k. Basically for the last 8 years I've made 10 grand less each year just to cover injuries that affect her life long. Pretty scummy considering everything has increased so wildly in price, my "pocket spending money" is less now than when I started working back in 2007 making 7 an hour lol...
get a divorce and have her get on medicaid, then claim HoH on your taxes and claim her as a dependent. Less taxes, more healthcare. Work the system, don't let the system work you.
If you have insurance, the total bill is doubled that amount because they know the insurance company will pay, and you still might have to shell out couple hundred dollars. It's a vicious cycle. Hospitals get away with inflated prices, and insurance get away with ever-increasing premium because of "higher cost of medical care." The system is broken.
@@Jambuc829 What are you grading a book report? Go find out the cost of a medical procedure with paying 100% cash vs insurance coverage. You'll be surprised.
@@diegolara4202 So you are telling me if I ask the provider for the price of the service then call my insurance company I'd get a straight answer?! BS! Most providers would refuse to provide upfront cost of a procedure because it is designed to be as murky as possible.
@@diegolara4202 That doesn't make any sense. Hospitals are a business and as a business they would just refuse to take insurance money if it were less that's not how insurance works. Insurance covers the cost for you.
There's a rule that says after a certain amount of time you don't have to pay for your medical bill depending on your state but if this happens and you never pay the bill then goes to collections. When the bill goes to collections they will try to collect it from you and if you still refuse to pay then eventually it could hurt your credit score.
@@diegolara4202 They definitely do coming from someone who's credit is currently being effected by medical debt. But it has to be over $500 and it cant hit your credit for at least a year to give you time setup a payment plan. Google it. They can even garnish your wages. Please don't tell people they don't have to pay medical debt because someone might believe you and get royally screwed over because of it.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands: "The national maximum rate for an outpatient birth without medical indication or a birth in a birth center is €761.85. This means that after the reimbursement from basic insurance of €236, you will pay a maximum of €525.85 personal contribution for the delivery itself with a contracted care provider." You can have 90 babies minus a few fingers on the last one for the same amount of money.
This is why you always read medical bills. Make sure you're not getting charged for something that makes no sense. Also make sure you have an idea if it makes no sense. That can actually be complicated.
“Oh cmon. It’s one of life’s greatest joys! Having a baby is going to be worth it! Trust me!” Me: *I show the entire family this* …..”w-well it um..it gets better with age!!”
