Hey guys👋🏼, if any of you have copies of expensive US Medical Bills or subsidised/low-cost bills from UK/Australia/Canada/India or any country with a social health system for long admissions or costly procedures, please email them to me at doctoramedicine@gmail.com. I'm planning a follow-up video to this, maybe comparing US bills to similar bills from other countries. Cheers and take care! x
Please be honest about it and display what the Americans ACTUALLY PAY, and not just initial bills that support your incomplete understanding of how the American third-party payment system works. For example, remember to include the fact that an American doctor can send a patient a bill for $100 knowing that the patient’s insurance carrier has pre-negotiated a fee of $60, and the doctor has accepted, and the “unpaid” $40 gets marked as the doctor’s business loss against revenues at tax time. Please also be honest and include comparisons of quality of care complete with successful outcome rates. You might also discuss malpractice insurance in America, including but not limited to frequency of litigation and average settlement amount. In other words, please tell the WHOLE TRUTH. Don’t be a clown looking for cheap clicks.
@@franciscodanconia45 the video is not about how much americans pay after insurance its about how much bill u get........and relax bro its just a video and its not even like its completely false or making a bad image about america
@@Aditya-lc5uk if you are interested, you can look up the life expectancy of 20 (mostly) first world countries and their average cost (self payed, insured, partly insured, etc.) The USA sadly ranks last in life expectancy and is number one for annual average costs per capita.
Wish i could show you how much it cost here in Canada (Québec), but i’ve never seen a bill or talked about prices when seeing a Dr or going to the hospital.
He could build a Hospital, buy Apple products, travel to Europe and US, and still have tons of money left. It's actually really hard to wrap your head around that fact....
@@tinajsews2835 Repent of the spaghetti monster. Read your cookbooks for yourself. There is nothing out there in the world as the spaghetti monster to eat all your enemies. If you have questions, ask me.
In India medical technologist's who doing ct MRI their salary is 20000-30000 rupee/month .IN us and other Western country they pay 30-50 dollars/per hour .so that's why it is so expensive.
Okay I'm sorry I can't stop commenting: " I would be disappointed if I went to the hospital and paid $95,000 and they didn't give me the MRI machine." 😂😂😂😂
An MRI can cost upwards of 3 million, and costs 10k a month for it to just stay operational. It has to be housed in a special room due to the huge magnetic fields it generates. The people who operate and maintain it are professionals who get paid 6 figure salaries. If you are scanned by a modern MRI then it is not going to be cheap.
@ansazeem1234 They do it through subsidies from taxpayers and lineups. Not everything will qualify for access to the machine and then only in emergencies. Basically rationing. In the US it is not rationed, but you have to pay for that privilege. So, you get better access, faster access and more modern machines. In a managed health care system one in a hundred people who might benefit from an MRI scan will wait in a line to get one, while in a commercial health care system they can get access immediately if their doctor wants the result for any reason, provided they can pay for the costs associated with that immediate access.
@Tugela60 3 milion is in the very high end, and even if it cost 2mil a year to run, and you only do very complicated exams that last 2h and you only do 3 per day in average, at 7k per exam you still net 53mil or about 5.3 milion per year considering a 10 year lifetime for the machine. The grand river hospital (public) in ontario canada added one mri for 1.3mil, and planned to do 4500 scans per year with it, and in a cbc article they say that the running costs for 27 mri in ontario is 20mil, so it would come to about 195$ CAD per scan, wich makes sense as the average cost to do a private mri in canada was 780$ CAD in 2020 according to CADTH. Do you see the problem ?
@c0nct3d That is a MRI in a public health system, they will be more heavily used than one in a private system, so the cost per patient in private settings is likely considerably higher. The reason for this is that in a public system you are triaged and wait your turn, while in a private system it is always available, meaning it is sitting idle most of the time. In addition there are invisible costs which are absorbed up front by other parts of public systems, such as overhead, construction of the specialized spaces to house the machines etc etc. In a private system that all has to be paid for by the person receiving the service, which can add up to a considerable amount. On top of that you have to add the financing costs on the initial investment, something public systems do not include since there are no financing costs in the public system, at least not ones that the health care system pays, it is covered by general government revenue. Finally, whoever made the investment wants an annual return on it. The profits get taxed as well, so what the patient pays has to include that. These private institutions do not return 10,000% annual profits to their owners, the real number is much lower, more like 10 - 20% at most. The rest is spent on running the facility and paying various taxes. What you see in these bills for private health care is the REAL cost of on demand health services. Public systems do not provide on demand services, in many cases you need to wait, often for long periods of time, and the incidental costs are absorbed into general public budgets so you are not usually aware of them.
American healthcare is so good that if you have an accident, you should order a private jet instead of an ambulance and fly to Europe for better care and for 1/4 price (includes flight)
Honestly Im sorry for americans Us as europeans We dont have to worrie about doctors charging us that much money And in some european countries Check ups and things like that Are free
@@arnoldguy2269 you keep thinking that. 🤣🤣😂 You can have private care European countries too. Private health care is not expensive in the UK, in my opinion is due in part to it having to compete with the free service. What happens if you have a long term illness that requires constant medication.... I guess in the US the following year it gets classed as a pre existing condition. Which I believe is a license to print money.
As an American, it’s refreshing to see an outsider talk about how RIDICULOUS our healthcare costs are. Sadly you start to become numb to the outlandish prices over time and it gets less and less shocking. My mother in law owes $20,000 WITH insurance for breast cancer treatments and surgery and I thought, eh, it’s awful, but sounds about right
I have to admit I am in shock. I mean, my mum got breast cancer and went to Tata Medical Hospital (it is governed by the TMC trust), did her surgery, and got an amazing room to stay in for 2 days, 8 months of chemo, and regular 3 months of doctor visit after the chemo end and all of that came in around $4500 and I thought that was quite a lot, now reading yours I can't help thinking. It wasn't bad at all 😳
the sadest thing is that I am pretty sure your country HAS the money to afford cheap healthcare for everyone but they would rather spend money financing wars. I live in Brazil which is a poor country compared to USA and the healthcare here is free and getting better every year.
No wonder salaries in the US are so much larger than most of the rest of the world. If they weren't, I bet Americans would just die out from common cold.
@volkana1977 well the thing is we spend 600-750 BILLION dollars per YEAR on our military. we have the money, but we decided being the world's police force is better than free health care. it's quite ridiculous.
Lowballing it, I have seen "consultation" charges or charges for an attending physician in cardiology that literally came in said "how are you feeling?" didnt pay attention to the answer and essentially signed themselves a check for a couple hundred
I once saw a specialist for an injured wrist. Mind you, this injury had happened weeks prior and it took that much time just to get an appointment, by which time the injury all but healed itself. The specialist still charged my insurance (thus I had a co-pay of like $30) for a 5 minute chat, only to be told what I already knew. Welcome to American healthcare.
I’m convinced the American healthcare system looks at prices of medical care in india and just replaces the rupee sign to a dollar sign in their hospitals.
So basically a US citizen if needed a medical service, can come to India's premium hospitals, have a 1 month vacation along with it and still it'd be cheaper.
Check about AIG gachibouli...it even had a presidential suit for foreigners....literally they even had a on spot flight booking and a FOREX department just for the foerigners....
As a US citizen, one issue with that is you don't get much, if any vacation time. Two weeks a year is seen as a lot, and they'd really frown on trying to take all of that at once. If you tried to take a month off, they'd likely just fire you.
Hey Britain must be taking NHS tax from the citizen and providing them free services and they must have some categorised for it , if you getting good salary your tax rate would be high..
I had a double knee replacement in Japan. It was a total of $25,000 of which I paid just $500 as my part. The rest was covered by the national insurance.
I worked in America for a bit. The company I was working for had a very basic medical plan for me. I went to the doctor to go and get medication for a toenail fungus. Not only did the medical aid not cover it but the pills cost $200 a month that I had to take for 6 months. I also had to go for blood tests every two months to see that my kidneys were still healthy which cost $400 dollars each time and that was before I'd even pay my doctor anything for every visit. That would have amounted to $3000+ FOR TOENAIL FUNGUS! Suffice to say I rejected the treatment and instead paid the doctor $120 for the 10min consultation. I later returned back to my home country where I paid in total about $60 for the treatment to cure my toenail fungus. Insulin in the US cost 28 times more than in Turkey for example. I loved working in the states for the short time I was there but their medical and pharmaceutical system is messed up
I lived in Turkey and their public healthcare is really good. I was a student with full health coverage given by the Turkish government; never needed to visit the hospital myself but my friend did. My friend (who was also a Turkish scholarship student) got really sick with a rare TB and had to get several tests done with several surgeries and long stays at the hospital. He got treatment at the best hospitals in Istanbul, after he was wheelchair bound there was free therapy and consultations for him too for months, during Covid. Imagine if this was the US; he would have just been dead or probably killed himself after looking at the bills.
@@jakobinobles3263 A grave is typically leased for 25 to 100 years. If you do not renew at that time they will either bury someone on top or remove you for someone else. Its how they maintain costs to keep the graveyards clean and such as well as save space. Ie. No one remembers you at some point they will replace you.
@@jakobinobles3263 This is true. It's at Cemetery discretion. In the US at least, because Cemeteries own the land that you are purchasing the right to bury in, they still have the right to do what ever it is they please with their own land. Technically a cemetery in the US may choose to reclaim a cemetery plot at any point simply by claiming that the plot was purchased for a burial ceremony, not an extended period of time, and that no provisions were maid for maintenance thereafter if you didn't actually lease the land for a period. You see, cemetery land is EXPENSIVE in the states due to demand, and it's created a system in the US where only the upper-middle class and above can really afford to be buried, or buried where they would want to be at least, again due to the demand for plots. Most people in the US have now been priced out and instead have to opt for the economic option of cremation. So, anyways, back to the original topic. Unless you've specifically purchased the rights to a plot for a specific period of time, which does happen most of the time; Or unless you've specifically purchased the land from the cemetery, and now have ownership of that plot indefinitely, which pretty much no cemetery in the US will do unless your paying in, or at least near, the 7 digits; Then at any point a cemetery can clean you out of the plot and resell it. And obviously, so long as it's legal, they have no regard for the morals of it. Something I should mention though is that normally they aren't taking bodies out that were placed there last week, or anything like that lol. Normally it's at least near a hundred years. But yeah; What happens when the cemeteries are full? Well in the US at least, they reuse and resell them to the highest bidder, so they're never really full, or full for long at least, because someone with the money is always willing to pay top dollar to be dead in style, rather than be dust in the wind.
something similar was shown on another vid like this comparing medical bills between uk/us , at the end of the vid it showed a real life indecent in the US where a women was sideswiped by a car and it hit her kneecap shifting it to the side (sort of dislocated it) she was seen and heard in the vid saying don't call an ambulance please don't literally begging and saying she can't afford it and telling her partner to take her home all the while she was on the verge of passing out due to the pain...... sad state of affairs that is..
@@detroitbecomedefective2762 i live in the uk and used to do mountain biking , one time i came off my bike on a track not realizing there was glass on the track i landed elbow first right on it ......after getting up and brushing myself off (as you do when biking it's just a common theme to fall at some point) i felt something running down my arm and looked to find a 3 in long gash on my elbow AND a large 3-4 inch piece of curved glass sticking in one side of my arm and coming up out the other (curled under my skin) i couldnt remove it myself lol (i tried) and because i couldnt really walk home like this phoned an ambulance ,they came got me AND my bike allowed me to drop it off at home as it was on the way (since i was alone) took me to hospital got my arm all fixed up and by the end it cost me nothing what so ever.
The people of US can actually fly to India, have a nice surgery, take a vacation for a month and then fly back to the US in that amount of money. It will also save them thousands of dollars.
@@narendratripathi1684 elections and electing ppl isn’t alway easy, and besides most people in the running campaign for something and then don’t even do it and just get the position for themselves
That is true at times. Same with Mexico. But regulations and base medical requirement regulations are very different in the two countries. Same with worker benefit coverage requirements and facility quality. There are reasons why the costs are different beyond simple "profit" issues. There are also different price points that can be acquired here in the U.S.A. for most procedures. People here travel among the states here for the same reason. Prices are not monolithic here.
There is also this idea been put into American patients that having procedures outside US is very bad and you will have so many life threatening complications, so ppl are often discouraged from it. Ad if approximately 6.5 billion ppl can't survive outside US. As a nurse in US, i have seen plenty of ppl who return with infections and other complications here who had surgeries here in US even after all the " Surgical Care Interventional Protocols with pre op Antibiotics, blood clot preventions etc. So its just individual results varying. Bottom line is US healthcare cost is very high but some people refuse to admit it, as soon as you talk about it, they politicize it talking about socialism and communism etc... Some of these are people who literally will argue at a grocery shop checkout line over some coupons. Having said the there is some Medical tourism that happens here. I had my kidney transplant done in India like two months after starting my dialysis here in US and came back few months later with no issues. Its been 4 years and so far i had no issues.
If he actually paid it and what more than likely happened is he got an audit from the IRS. If you have 2.5 million dollars to pay for a hospital bill you surely must be hiding more money because you shouldn't have that much money left over after paying the IRS.... well can't have that... would be their logic.
As a German watching this is pure insanity. Imagine having to decide on either living/taking care of your health or being in crippling debt all your life, what a shame.
I remember time before internet when people from my country were idolize US like is heaven on earth ..they had no sht about real life not Hollywood movies
I work in healthcare in the United States in primary Care. That is a situation that our patients come across quite frequently. We had an elderly general man just last month decided that he would rather die of cancer than try to get treatment because it was too expensive. The insurance that he did have wasn't very good and he would have to continue to work in order to keep his insurance and he technically didn't qualify it for Medicare because he isn't bankrupt. So he decided it was in his family's best interest to just let it take him. There are days when I come home and breakdown crying because I cannot help people. For profit medicine is killing people.
@@redfox903 Medicare is not qualified for by income It is a simple age thing. Do you consider under 65 "elderly"? Over 65 qualifies for Medicare. Insurance coverage does not drop due to stopping working, there is COBRA coverage which would automatically kick in if you terminated employment. Its cost would be the entire amount of the insurance the employer may have been partially paying for as a part of their employment. And that would be way cheaper than having to pay for cancer treatment. BTW, I assume you make a wage at your work. Is that not "for profit"? Also, most hospitals are "non-profits" though there are exceptions. Believe it or not, costs are an issue for all systems, including things like the NHS in England and the more private, but government mandated system in Germany, They all stress over costs and seek to limit "unnecessary" expenses, sometimes using things like rationing or treatment delays. There is no "free". If you want to help your patients, learn more about what is available to them. Honestly, most providers don't know much about that, only complain about what they don't understand. And I am not trying to be unsympathetic, I have many family members in heath care fields. I will admit things are hard to navigate here.
@@gregm3139 point number one patient is 60 therefore not old enough to qualify for Medicare. Patient currently has too much in assets which means that they do not qualify for Medicaid even with cancer. Patient does not qualify for Cobra because he is coming from a company with less than 20 employees which means that his company does not have to pay into Cobra. and even if he did qualify for Cobra the average payment a month for an individual is $630 US dollars. Patient made the mistake of not paying into short-term disability at their job because they didn't think that they needed it. In my area there is one hospital in a 45 minute drive and it is a for-profit hospital. Patient doesn't qualify for financial assistance at said hospital in order to get their cancer treatment because again they have too much an assets in land. So in order to protect the inheritance and retirement funds of his wife and children he decided it was better to just die. So before you come on here telling me I don't know enough about my job and I need to do my research maybe take a step back and and have some humility by understanding maybe you don't know everything about every situation.
I literally had this same scenario a week and a half ago. Had upper abdomen pain, went to the Emergency Department at the closest hospital, was given a bed, had an ECG, Ultrasound, CT Scan, blood work, different painkillers like Fentanyl and Endone. The medical and surgical team had a look at the scans and blood work results, saw inflammation on the scan and blood work had infection markers. Got released after about ten hours with the general consensus being gastritis. Didn't pay a cent out of pocket. I also had a prescription for medication that cost about fifteen dollars. I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Was reading your comment, halfway through it I think you will end up with a Lifelong debt. then I complete reading the comment and sigh in relief that you are living in Australia.
What's the most expensive car ride you never get to take? Socialized medicine ambulance ride. I mean, you seem to forget that people pay for it and don't necessarily use it. (PS I'm Canadian btw. And our ambulance fees are expensive if they're not life or death situations).
Thanks to South Indians talking in that cute accent, it took me years to talk properly in English after I moved out of south after living there for 9 years.
@@L0n30pium depends. If you want one to accommodate a whole city it might not be enough. But a fairly sized one with most facilities can be made. Its not that expensive really.
An MRI machine itself costs somewhere between 30lakhs to 4 crores so idt you can build one with all facilities with that much but a minor one with basic diagnostic abilities sure. Those machines are expensive
As an American this is depressing to watch. And the ridiculousness does not end here. My great-aunt had to get hip surgery after a fall and her bills were paid by Medicare, however when the doctor said she needed two weeks of rehab afterwards Medicare said they would only pay for 4 days
And... My view on the US just changed from "The US is a rich country" to "The US is a miserable country". Really, that is misery. No other word for it.
@@wisnu1114 yeah, I fell on my tailbone in high school and they pulled out a disposal MRI machine, finished scanning, tossed it in the dumpster behind an Arby’s
i’ve got a mate who has a American girlfriend, were Australian, so when my mate had hurt himself he told her to call an Ambulance, she hesitated and constantly asked does really want to, he got annoyed and yelled “Yes, they’re free here!” 😂 apparently Ambulance is a couple of grand in american… imagine being scared to call for help. Edit: I KNOW we pay taxes and have Medicare and what not for these situations, when I say "Free" I understand it's not necessarily free but at that moment a relief to not need to pay upfront. Edit again: Also I realized it's the states of Queensland and Tasmania that have free ambulance cover, the state government covers it, other states have ambulance cover fees for the year, if you so choose. My bad.
I had an American friend (I'm french) who told me that ambulance ride cost between $500 and $1000 PER mile. He once got slammed with an $8k bill from the hospital after he blacked out drunk. They only gave him an ambulance ride some paracetamol and waited a few hours for him to sober up.
It's not for free ambulance unless your on government benefits etc. You actually take ambulance cover roughly $100 a year for family. If you don't have cover you have to pay around $2000 for an ambulance even in Australia.
At 12 miles for the nearest big hospital, my best friend and I have agreed whenever we do stupid stuff that we'll let each other take the risk of manually driving the other to the hospital over paying $6,000-20,000, even if it causes one of us to lose our lives.
My sister is a gynaecologist. She is practicing in a small town karnataka. She charges 8k Inr (100USD) for normal delivery and 25k inr (350USD). Thats a package for end to end. And every day she will do 2 to 3. She is alreaey the richest in my family.
In my country, due to social security my mom received 800 PEN for giving birth to my brother. She stayed in the hospital for more than 3 weeks because she had eclampsia and her heart stopped for a while during birth. My brother had to stay in the hospital for 15 days. Total cost: 0 PEN (or -800 PEN since she actually received money)
Fun fact. Until recently, insurance companies also had "annual limits" they imposed on the plans and that limit was usually $1million. So that procedure that cost 2.4mil, after insurance would have still been over $1.4million to the patient. (Luckily this changed with the Affordable Care Act in 2014.)
I smiled up until half the video.... With prices like these i bet a lot of people don't even go to the hospital for fear of not making till next month.... Disgusting
@@_d-- I will BEG my friends to take me in a car before I will call an ambulance. Just the RIDE TO THE HOPSITAL can cost you several thousand dollars alone. I am 37 and I haven't seen a doctor in at least 20 years. Since this country is headed for another civil war by the time I retire, my plan is to just die in my 60's I guess. America....I just can't even anymore....
How heartless do they have to be that not only is the patient already suffering from injury/illness, they're crippling them with debt right after? Absolutely inhumane.
Worst part is if they are unconscious they'll administer stuff regardless and basically milk you for as much as possible. And some people will just rather die than leave their family with a bill like that.
I think the total c section bill in the states is way more- I know people who’ve paid up to $30,000 when you include hospital stay, anaesthetist fees, medications, baby’s care etc.
I agree with that. Most Americans I know that deliver a baby in the hospital have a $25,000-$30,000 bill. They're either really good at negotiating the price down or they've only shown us one part of the total bill.
The best hospital chain in India, Fortis Healthcare Ltd with 56 hospitals earns a profit of 4 million $ in a month and that one guy spent 2.5 million $ in the U.S., why not 😂
The rock climbing guy started climbing again when he saw the bill. The doctors told him he had several trauma and cannot climb for months. He proved everyone wrong by climbing out of the hospital through the window with one hand holding the glucose.
Over the years I have often heard that that healthcare in the US of A is insanely expensive in comparison to the UK, but after watching this, its not hard to be convinced!
@@okidoki878 people don’t even realize that what Europe and Scandinavian counties are doing right now, is what the founding fathers of the United States wanted for America.
My reaction is usually a mixture of depression and a mouth-frothing rage. Remember to vote for progressives (if possible) instead of just voting democrat.
A lot of it's actually "compensating for the insurance companies trying to rip off both parties by not actually paying if they can possibly avoid it" care.
even if you build a "cheap" hospital, people could demand you for "shit", maybe that's why hospitals are running by lawyers and corporations, i remember one "dude" crash a his car was burning, someone help him to reach out at time but he damage the leg, so the Rescuer was demanded, USA Hospitals started as christian charity care, and now become a multi million ripoffs
@@robertcarson3116 no, not really since you know you also have a giant mortality rate due to preventable diseases, last study I could find says at least 45,000 deaths for lack of insurance happen every yeah, around 27,8 million Americans don't have insurance and being 24th in the global health goals chart behind some third world countries. Yeah I think you are NOT doing just fine
@@robertcarson3116 you've just highlighted why the US has issues. The taxes of everyone should pay for the healthcare of everyone, individuals shouldn't shoulder the bill of private health insurance. You don't see that 8.2% not having insurance is concerning. That's the problem
i ve worked in a russian hospital in paid services department and the most expensive c-section contract cost $1500 - it s like personal obgyn, personal nurse, etc, plus a consultation with the chosen doctor before signing a contract $55. most couples understandably chose cheeper contracts - that were like $930-$1200 for standard delivery and those contracts were like for extra feeling of security for the mother bcs for example she wanted her baby to be delivered in this exact hospital in her personal delivery room and so on - bcs generally any delivery in russia is free 🤷🏻♀️ even if you re a hobo woman who got pregnant, at the start of contractions you can go to any delivery hospital and they will clean you and deliver your baby for free
both mine were plopped out in sweden xD no way in hell was it gonna happen in the us xD My in laws were flabbergasted when i told them that the total cost for both kids plus 5 days in NICU was a whopping $60.
@@AnoukhHellstream I can imagine that conversation being so funny when you tell them with their american healthcare standards how little that cost you😂👌🏼
USA: probably the only country in the world that charges the mother for holding the very same baby that she had inside her body for 9 months prior to her delivery 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Aussie story: Had septicemia, 8 days in ICU 5 days in ward, left the hospitals with a 50 dollars medical bill....plus gov gives you free money for being a patient..
To be fair, considering how many things in Australia are trying to kill you, it'd be crime against humanity to charge such ridiculous prices for when you fall victim to one of them. That's not even counting daily misfortune and mishaps.
@@ignaciomunizdiaz5194 that's not the problem. An MRI Machine costs anywhere between 3 and 6 million dollars, comprising the hospital infrastructure costs. Usual running costs remains below 1 million a year, comprising electricity and maintenance. Add the technicians and radiologists salary and you'll go up to what, 2 or 3 million a year? For a machine that can do like 50 scans per day at bare minimum. It could cost like 400$ comprising taxes and the hospital would still making a markup on it. Instead they charge more than 5'000 dollars usually (here 95 thousands is for multiple scans obviously) so you see, the problem is not lack of funds, it's a fucked up system...
@@REVOLUTIONS51 Nope, THAT'S BE THE PROBLEM... THE US MILITARY EXPENDITURE OF 5 YEARS CAN AFFORD ALL NEW PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND AVOID THE PRIVATE ONE... THE US MILITARY EXPENDITURE ARE 650,000,000 MILLIONS. YOU CAN BUY A BILLION MRI MACHINES WITH THAT, A BILLION ONES
@@ignaciomunizdiaz5194 Ignacio is right here. The U.S. has a non-discretionary tax budget and a discretionary tax budget. Non-discretionary means things we absolutely HAVE to use tax dollars for. Discretionary on the other hand, means we can use whatever is left to fund sectors like the healthcare system, education, our nation's science departments, national defense, etc. However- every single time the government makes a discretionary tax budget, 'Defense' / the military receives over 53% of our nation's tax dollars every single time. The next-highest paid sector is the government, usually at 11%. No sector in the United States, including infrastructure, education, nor healthcare, receives even 10% of our nation's tax dollars. The way our nation spends tax dollars is absolutely absurd.
@@ZakkWasNotAvailable Also, there are too many in America that view the world through the lens of "I got mine, so fuck everyone else". The US is, for the most part, a HIGHLY individualist society where everyone is only out for themselves and to hell with everyone else.
Wow I don't understand how they go around skateboarding, cycling or riding any vehicle normally without the fear of an accident ..like I would be more scared of medical bills than my own life lol
Eidodk, you are using hyperbole. I do enjoy it,but I had to see if you were right. In 2020 us Medicare had a budget of $644 billion, well in 2018, Forbes found stated go fund me raised a small $645 million for healthcare. I live in the USA, love my country, but if you visit bring travel health insurance.
And you can't just get up and visit a doctor like you would in India. You have to wait for a long time for an appointment and unless you're critically ill, you cannot just visit out of the blue. So for example if you have a stomach ache, you have to wait until it becomes severe.
@@rutwickgangurde3247 in the larger and more expensive private hospitals in India we don't really need to wait much if at all. Even the most expensive hospitals here are many times cheaper than in the USA.
@@rutwickgangurde3247 Not sure where you got the idea you have to wait. There's no appointments for urgent or emergency care in the US, you just go into the hospital/urgent care clinic/etc and get it taken care of. The only "non-urgent" (appointment-based) services are planned services (prostate exams, prenatal care, checkups, medical refills, etc). The US has a shit insurance-based for-profit system, but it still has a top rate medical system + hospitals, in almost every other regard: www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2021
Both are significantly within your control here. Don't be uninsured. (Other countries force it upon you, be responsible with your liberty.) Work during college and pay most of the cost with that. Come to grips with that reality. You can do well if you make smart choices. As a side note, before federal backed student loans were widely in play, 4Y college was, for the most part, far less expensive, if not cheap. Now, even most land grant schools are far from inexpensive for in-State residents. The free availability of debt money has driven the educational market pricing vertical over the decades. Community colleges are not as affected.
@@gregm3139 Within your control? So loosing your job due to a recession, a lay off or offshoring is within your control? Please stop. I know so many people with good paying jobs, doing all the right things end up begging for help and using Go find me to make it. I had insurance. I was pregnant, my baby came earlier while I was visiting relatives a hour away. I couldn't make to the hospital I was soppose to go to ( yeah I had freedom to chose between a crappy one and a crappier one), I was already giving birth in the car. Turns out the nearest hospital had a doctor on staff that was not covered by my insurance at all. I had the freedom to save thousands of dollars and try to deliver a premature baby in the parking lot. But did they tell me that , no ( therefore no freedom of choice). They sent me $15,000 bill. After that I suffered additional health issue and could not work. My mother died and her funeral expenses added on. We used all of our savings . My husband works 16 to 18 hours a day. We are both college educated. We tried to do everything right. You are ok until you are not. While I have cousins in Europe who take two vacations a year , got their masters and law degree played for and live healthier and happier lives. The systems here are broken and rigged. As for school expenses that is result of greed. Stop with the library bull shit. It's a cheap facade . So I have the freedom to " choose" between a variety of crappy choices. When you are one cancer diagnosis away from loosing everything you work for, freedom is just a label. It's a mirage.
A Pakistani from Karachi living in Texas told me his wife needs some eye drops which costs here in the US around $400. They got in Karachi for around 70 rupees(now adays like 25 cents) and the interesting thing was, it was made by the same pharmaceutical company here in the US
Because atleast if they are asleep they can atleast ignore the massive shafting unchecked capitalism has created for em. Personally I still can't get over the fact society as a whole is actually happy for these companies to operate in such ways an keep medical research/patents under wraps. Despicable people running the show for sure.
They're the most obese and diabetic people on the planet with heart attack rates highest in the world. I guess as the demand increases, the price increases as well.
I love how quickly people become numb to the ridiculous costs of US healthcare. They went from "Holy cow, $4k for a c section??" to "Eh, 50k for surgery for a broken neck, that's not bad."
@@tapmaster6136 I would think dividing America would be a step in the right direction. The United States aren't united enough that different regions pull at different ends of the rope. The Health Care system is a stupid compromise between Republicans and Democrats. It's like arguing whether you want pie or sausage, and you get a pie sausage instead.
@Miguel Padilla Doctors, shareholders of medical device companies, shareholders of drug companies, lawyers, nurses, insurance company shareholders, and so on.
I looked it up, apparently used MRI machines can be somewhere between $150,000 or as expensive as $1.2 million. So if you're going to need them regularly, in America, you're probably better off buying your own.
At the beginning I was laughing at these bills, but now I am concerned about how an ordinary guy would survive if he/she doesn't have an insurance..!!!!
I had worked in a Medical coding /billing company for America. Believe it's very painful to take their calls daily my heart breaks when they cry over phone that they had to sell the home or car and even then could not cope up with. I resigned my job . It feels doing sin biling those poor patients .
Basically they will have insurance plans which itself is a scam if ur a kind of person who goes to hospital at rare occasions but for the people who falls under certain category theres a plan called Medicaid which covers for them & provider(doctors) cannot bill anything to this patients
@@UttarpurvBharat sare jaha se a66a hindustan hamara .....govt is doing a lot of things when compared to usa then .. my sister got a lot of scholarship form govt , my mom has a health card and it is applicable for whole family , me and my father get also money for being farmer ...after doing all of these things a country with 1.4 billion people is still neglected by developed nations ....
American here🙋🏻♀️. Just wanted to add that those charges which are already astronomical, are not complete. The patient will receive separate bills from the ER physician, radiologist, surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc. the hospital’s charges are just for the use of hospital space and equipment. The physicians who read the X-rays, do the surgeries etc will bill the patient for their services.
@@aniruddhrao3489 It's sad, many people, including my mom forgo to going to a doctor because they're afraid of how much they will be billed. It's a broken system.
Yep. My friend disputed one of those bills because after a fall and ER visit, she was charged for dentist services. There was no e. The boy was 4 months old and had no teeth.
@@aniruddhrao3489 better yet, the docs works for specific networks, so you may have insurance that covers the hospital, but not the doctor’s network, and you’ll have no say or options
What's the use of calling USA super power when they can't serve you people properly. Proud Indian moment lol. I spent most of my life in middle East(still here) and even here education and healthcare is subsidized or free.
i have a lot of mental health issues (like to the point ive been to psych wards and am susceptible to borderline psychosis unmedicated) and im trying crazy hard to somehow find a magic fix to get rid of them all. because it is NOT cheap for my parents and i highly doubt i could afford it once i have to pay for it on my own. like my psych ward friends and i have said that we feel bad for the adult ward because most of them are in there for suicidal reasons, and probably will finish the job once they see the bill of being there.
@@chriscintron3320 Oh no... That sounds rough... I hope things improve... There's always the option to move to another country where you can find easier/cheaper medical, that is if you have the ability to move abroad. That's what I did.
Living in America is like Living on real life Monopoly game Board, u never know what u gonna step on & how much u gotta spent for every small/big decision that u do.
Yeah there’s a reason why so many people will be literally in the verge of death and still refuse to go to the hospital here in the U.S. this is that reason.
With 95000 dollars he can buy a flight to India and complete his MRI in finest hospital and can buy a return flight to USA and still he will be having around 90000 dollars in hand
It's not. Also, most people in the states have private health insurance plans provided by their employer. The employee pays a part of the monthly premiums amd their employer pays the rest. Problem with this is you're stuck with whatever health insurance your employer picked and if you lose your job then you have to pay the full monthly premiums for a short while then youre kicked off the plan altogether.
@@Kaigozen if they lower the prices, then your insurance company wouldn't be getting you a good deal and you wouldn't go through them. By them jacking the price for everyone, they can save you up to 100% of the cost if you only just pay them and don't ever get sick or injured or be a woman, which is a preexisting condition that lots of insurance companies don't want to have to deal with. Or need glasses. Or have genetic conditions.
The problem is only a fraction of the bill is actually paying for the doctoring. Think of the insurance company as a middleman. The middleman has to get paid too. If the bill is directly from the office, then it'd make more sense to these two doctors. I had to get a lab done where the no insurance billing (as in paying the lab directly for the cost of the test itself) was $200 however if billing insurance the bill would have been $750.
@@yangzhang5870 i don't understand your intent with the comment to be fair, but if you're defending it, then defending the American insurance process is the worst way to go about it.
@@kevinsmithgaming There was no intent and I definitely was NOT defending the US healthcare system. I was simply pointing out that the billing system does not make sense to the doctors because it's the insurance process that makes no sense. I don't know why you would think that I was defending it. I've never been more insulted in my life 😭
Which is why most people, even with insurance, won't go the hospital until something is really wrong with them. There is no such thing as preventative care in the US because people can't afford it. So instead they wait until that headache that won't go away is causing them to go blind, or that sore shoulder is suddenly so bad they can't even lift their arm.
To put it in perspective, just over a QUARTER of USA citizens make less than 25K per year. This is why medical debt is the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA
In 2012 I had a back fusion on 2 levels and the surgeons bill alone was 400K (and he was a resident of the hospital.) They overmedicated me with anesthesia which caused me a 10 day stay in hospital instead of the expected 4 day stay. My hospital bill exceeded 1M.
Hi! I’m Italian and here healthcare it’s free. A lot of Italians complains about bad healthcare and things like this. I’m so glad to don’t have to pay that much for have a good quality of care. Its insane.
I think one of the big things Americans dont get is that they hear their reps talk about how bad healthcare is in other places. Then citizens complain about what I feel like are fair (but ultimately nonmaterial in comparison to American Healthcare) issues with their system. Americans can then convince themselves that they’re fine until they get sick in a foreign country and see for themselves the disparity :)
@@nikhil.k3for life or death emergencies (code red) it's just immediate, basically as soon as the (free) ambulance arrives at the nearest hospital you get your treatment. For code yellow it's fast, it's very slow for codes green and white but that's expected (you don't get called until higher priority codes are over, and it can take many hours). If you are not talking about emergencies, you can get a first appointment with a specialist for 20€ (ticket cost) in a week or so, but exams are much slower (2-4 months, depending on the field) and intervention even slower. Italy is really just bad for light stuff and hard to diagnose stuff, then without spending money it can take you years. Still, neoliberism policies closed a lot of hospitals so in some countryside the ambulance are too far to ensure safety, so that's a problem too.
@@nikhil.k3For a medical Emergency you go to the E.R, and depending on the seriousness of your condition you either wait to be treated by a doctor there or get admitted straight away to the hospital. Both scenarios completely free of charge
I had my child at home because my parents scared me away from hospitals. When I was younger I was really sick and the hospital bills from my one night stay put us in such a deep hole that I never wanted to go to a hospital. I ended up going after my son was born and I ended up saving a very significant amount of money. He is doing very well and the birth went perfectly.
@@ICE0124 My dad was cremated. I paid nothing for it. His ashes were given to me in a bag. I bought a nice urn and transferred them to that. You only pay for a funeral and a box if you choose to do so. Also... we do have life insurance in America.
Imagine some movie villain: "give me *one million dollars* or I'll blow up the city" and succeeds. But he breaks a leg badly during a chase and goes to a hospital incognito. No big deal. The hospital then charges him TWO million dollars. This can literally buy an entire hospital where I live with all equipment, medicine, years of staff wages, etc.
5 000$ for existing, 6 969$ for coming, 10 000$ for coming to this specific hospital, 100 000$ for committing suicide, 1000$ for me not wanting to calculate the total, good luck paying
Where people died and how much the final month of care cost: 42% of patients died at home: $4,760 40% of patients died in the hospital: $32,379 7% of patients died in hospice: $17,845 7% of patients died in a nursing facility: $21,221 5% of patients died in the ER: $7,969 Source: Arcadia Healthcare Solutions
@@shaylyn5518 In all those obesity shows, most often people have gastric bypass surgery then how do they even afford it? Is everyone eligible for insurance?
Read the economy first btw USA spends world's largest and most per capita income in Research and Science that's how USA has been inventin and discovering new stuffs America country itself is expensive as the Americans hav larger economy ( take a example of Switzerland which is also expensiv in manythin bcz of higher GDP per capita ) .. No one can be perfect !!! It's insane how You people get easily buthurt and talk sht about America whenevr u get a chance. Insurance is very important here
United corporations of America. The food industry makes people unhealthy and addicted. While the insurance and pharma make a profit out of these sick people. It's a cycle of greed.
Just checked and here in the Netherlands scanning particular parts cost between 150-300 euros. While a full body (with doctors consultation) at a private clinic can be done for 1000 euros. The USA is just INSANE when it comes to these prices.
imagine having to pay to see and feel your own child. that should be prosecuted as a kidnapping imo, completely inhumane and against any morally right thinking brain
American should take a emergency flight to India, take medical services in the finest hospital with top class facilities, get well, enjoy a 2 month vacation in 5 star hotel and take a 1st class flight back to US and still save 100s of thousands of dollars 😂😂😂
They can also visit France lmao For 40$ you have all of our healthcare for nearly free since its mandatory. With cost of plane and hotel expect around 1000$ for one week.
American here, good video but just pointing out that those bills are just partial...the Dr will send his own bill separately & the surgeries & c-section have an additional bill from the anesthesiologist! I'm surprised I don't get bills from the janitors for cleaning the rooms afterwards!
The funny thing is they send the bills months after your visit and you have no idea what was done 🤣. Just feeling bad for anyone not able to have insurance in US
@@cactus6288 and even when they are insured its still a rip off. The difference you dont have to pay it directly, but all Patients with there insurances.
@@gernotfischer7908 Hey American, I dont understand it, where is the money going? Is it going into the doctors pocket or the equipments costs a lot or there are a lot of taxes.....why is the healthcare in the US so different from the other developed nations?
I've been saying this for years now: If you need any kind of medical help in america, its cheaper to book a flight to europe or asia and go to a hospital there.
@@zander8347 have a healthy Life ahead Talking about corruption of Bulgaria and India Even we don't know what's the case of China and North Korea 😂😂 They hide their corruption Have a healthy Life ahead 😭❤️
I live in USA. Problem is we don't get what we pay for either. So many AVOIDABLE problems (even deaths) because doctor's talent is through the roof, but "medical staff" is also careless, callous, narcissistic, stubborn, dismissive, etc... Hospitals are run like oil companies.
US actually ranks extremely well when it comes to doctors, advanced medical care and even inventions of many tools used in a hospital. I think nurses in the US are also overall well trained, first world. The issue is the cost. It's like the Military Industrial Complex but instead of bombs, its hospitals. The only way to push this down is if the government enacts many laws or simply takes over things. The lie Americans have been told is "well all the good doctors will leave where they can get paid more" ... not really, even then, the US would probably pay top dollar. It's disgusting. Big Farma is mostly to blame but theres so much more to it. Americans should be enraged instead of just going with the flow. It's also gross that its political. Health care in the US is extremely political. In virtually every first world country, the idea of health care being political even in the slightest is mindblowing. In the US, progress toward affordable health care is purely on the Left. Republicans like with Obamas Affordable Health Care Act tried everything in their power to stop it and when they had someone in charge, they did NOTHING to greatly enhance it.
@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un Because the republicans are based on a sizeable population that think they shouldn't pay for things they won't use, and are inherently distrustful of others. Why should they pay more taxes so someone on the other side of the country can get their arm fixed because they were doing something stupid every other week. To them, socialized healthcare is just the stupid and reckless being an active burden on the entire nation. If anything though, it being a political issue is largely a smokescreen. The real problem is Big Pharma. The entire healthcare industry, from the insurance providers to the doctors, are milking people for every dime they can with no regard for human life, they're worse than 419 scammers.
Idk if I’d say US doctors talents are through the roof. I’d say most literally don’t know how anything works, can’t relate to their patients well, and just expect others to do the work. Some are obviously amazing, but most honestly terrify me.
