This is fucking sick. Fuck capitalism and fuck private healthcare. This system is so disgusting. Vote for Bernie Sanders we need Medicare for All.Â
[Video transcript start: âAlright, yâall like the desk shit, and Iâve got plenty of it. So hereâs another scenario: you go to the emergency room, you get a bill for a thousand dollars. The very first thing you do, other than calling and asking for a âreview of the level of care,â thatâs the first thing you do. While on the phone, while theyâre doing that, you also say, âI want an itemized bill with every single charge.â
âNow what theyâre going to do on the back end of thatâbecause they donât want you to know that theyâve charged you thirty-seven dollars for a fucking band-aidâtheyâre going to take that thirty-seven dollar charge right off of there. Before they send you the itemized statement, any of those stupid charges? Theyâre gonna take them right off. Generally, my bills go from a thousand dollars to seven-hundred and fifty, they take about two-hundred dollars off just for stupid shit. All you have to do is ask for an itemized bill with every charge, and theyâre gonna take those charges off, âcause they donât want you to know that theyâre charging you thirty-seven dollars for a fucking band-aid, and guess what? Thatâs how much they charge for a fucking band-aid. So, when you actually can say, âYou charged me thirty-seven dollars for a band-aid?â They donât like that. So they remove-â Audio cuts off mid-sentence and ends.]
Wish I would have known this when I had to go to the hospital a couple years ago. Over 500 dollar bill for a band aid & antibiotic cream that I put on myself đ
Dont let them screw you.
You can also write a Letter of Hardship if youâre in financial distress and theyâll reduce the bill drastically. I had a $2.5K ER bill, wrote to the billing department saying Iâm unmarried, unemployed, and uninsured, and they knocked it down to $125.
Thatâs not a typo. $125.
I just went from $975 to $225 thanks to this post.
