We have a class 5 hospital, with the doors barely open. If it wasn’t open some response times would be over 4.5 hours. We are lucky to have a full doctor a few times a month. Our PA’s and NP’s try. Very few in the entire county have health benefits unless you have Medicare. The hospital staff sure don’t.
even the Medicare Dis-advantage plans they promote so heavily either have HIGH deductibles or not much is covered. My co-pay for outpatient procedures is $400 per. I've been getting ablations every two months for the Barrett's the entire length of my esophagus as well as having a broke wrist and two outpatient surgeries last year. My bill was astronomical. I finally got directed to the Financial Assistance program and once they had all my info they reduced my bill my 60%. Helpful, but still a huge amount.
I was a psych NA once upon a time and I couldn’t afford health insurance when I worked in a hospital. The union I was in bent over backwards to give the hospital every concession possible to include screwing us over on our benefits.
@@raulendymion9917 they were public union. The only thing they cared about was getting as many people on their email blasts to go support this person and to protest/boycott that person. It took me six months of calling and emailing after leaving that job to get them to stop contacting me
@@raulendymion9917 they cared more about collecting dues and growing their email list so they could blast out to as many people as possible who to vote for, who to protest, etc. They weren’t a nurses union or anything like that and didn’t give a shit about their membership. It took 6 months of me contacting them after I left that job to finally take me off their email lists.
Oh and those for-profit ambulances? The ones that show up if someone dials 911? Yeah. Even if you have insurance, the ambulance may not be in your network. Even if you have no choice over which ambulance shows up. I’m stuck with a $4,000 bill that insurance won’t touch because I suddenly developed a tree nut allergy at 32 and the people who saved my life aren’t in my network. But it’s my fault really. Who am I to try and pick healthy snacks?
I had a procedure done in an outpatient clinic and when I came to from the anesthesia they asked me how I felt. The cardiac monitor started alarming. I was in A Fib. They couldn't get it under control there so they sent me to the nearest ER, which was 5 minutes away. They called an ambulance company to transport me. Of course my brother that had driven me to the procedure couldn't drive me! Anyways, the ambulance company charged me $5,000 for that little ride. 'Murica!
It's for profit medical services. You can't call it care at all. The American systems for providing medical services is abysmal....and profitable for some in that line of work. I cannot understand why the general public allow this travesty.
I live in other countries. No places better than the US, despite its flaws. One of my criticisms of people who want socialized medicine is that they don’t bear any of the tax burden. There’s a point of taxation where it makes more sense for higher earners to work less. Sadly, we’ll never fix illegal immigration to the point where it would be financially feasible to have universal healthcare.
