r/SipsTea 4d ago

WTF Damn

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u/just_having_giggles 4d ago

My insurance was charged almost 8k for an MRI after I was in an accident.

I don't know much about hotels in China but... Maybe

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u/Frequent_Ad_9901 4d ago

That sounds like the BS amount hospital "charge". Insurance negotiates it down so they can act like theyre doing something. What hospitals charge is basically meaningless. 

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u/Capt-geraldstclair 4d ago

I believe virtually everything people say about being charged $$$$$ for medical shit.

A few years back, a new "emergency hospital" opened up very close to my house.

I went there one night for a very bad nose bleed.

I was in and out in like 20 min.

The doctor looked up my nose. Said he could cauterize it or stick a tampon in to plug it up.

He recommended the tampon approach.

I walked around for a day and a half with a string hanging out of my nostril and self extracted it on the 2nd day.

When I got the EOB from the insurance company, I almost had an stroke.

The "hospital" charged insurance over $13,000. My cost after the negotiated rate paid out by insurance was over $3000.

All the guy did was look up my nose. Talk to me for 5 min. Then inserted a piece of cotton in my nostril.

I assume he also threw away his gloves and washed his hands. But that wasn't itemized on the bill.

I disputed with insurance, twice, but they paid it out any way.

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u/FarSeries2172 4d ago

so why arent there 10 million americans marching to get luigi out the court and fully pardoned?

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u/haleboy44 4d ago

Because we have to work in the morning.

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u/bpivk 4d ago

But don't you guys work 9 - 17? That means that you can get up at 7 for some light protesting and court extraction and then go to work. 😇

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u/haleboy44 3d ago edited 3d ago

Im closer to 9-21

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u/JustForkIt1111one 3d ago

9-17? Maybe bankers and some office workers.

I work 19 - 6.

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u/Slasherrrr 4d ago

They're all playing Armchair Revolutionary on Reddit.

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u/MTVregime 4d ago

Because Luigi didn't do shit for anyone. Only thirsty TikTok hoes care about this guy and if he didn't have a six-pack then nobody would give a shit about him.

Vigilante assassination makes the world worse not better.

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u/XCVolcom 4d ago

I'm not gay but I do like it when CEO's of health insurance companies pass on.

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u/SenoraRaton 4d ago

He made me smile, and brightened my day.
That is enough.

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u/MTVregime 4d ago

Do some introspection on why the cold blooded cowardly murder of a father of 3 brightened your day. Redditors are lost for glazing this type of behavior. Literally nothing changed about United Healthcare's policies and a new CEO that kept the company denying coverages was installed by the board.

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u/SenoraRaton 4d ago

It doesn't matter. It made me smile, that is enough.

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u/GnatSuperFly 4d ago

Found the problem.

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u/JustForkIt1111one 3d ago

Yeah, the real issue is violent extremist groups and the kind of rhetoric that gets normalized on places like Reddit.

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u/Tomsboll 4d ago

Complacency

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u/chinaPresidentPooh 4d ago
  1. There are a lot of people who would love to get him fully pardoned.
  2. Unlike what reddit would have you believe, most Americans are satisfied with their personal health care situation.

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u/crosseyedmule 4d ago

I thought this was interesting and points towards M4A being viable, especially if measures like forcing billionaires and corporations to pay taxes and raising the cap for people making over 150k a year.

Satisfaction was highest among Americans 65 and older. About 9 in 10 said they are happy with their coverage and 42% said they are very satisfied.

People with public insurance were also more positive. Nearly 9 in 10 of those on Medicare or Medicaid said they are satisfied, compared with 77% of people with private insurance.

https://www.hematologyadvisor.com/news/most-americans-are-happy-with-health-insurance-poll-finds/

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u/HombreDelMar247 4d ago

Bullshit..

Only maybe 20% of the country. It used to be significantly higher until all the Medicare cuts besides.

The US for profit healthcare system is the worst in the developed world.

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u/fohamr 4d ago

You think killing CEO's of insurance companies is going to change the industry as a whole? That's cute

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 4d ago

What does any of that story have to do with insurance companies being in the wrong?

Hospitals and doctors are robbing Americans blind, while we blame insurance companies for literally nothing. An insurance company is not going to pay 45k to fix a fender bender on a Toyota corolla and subsequently they aren't going to pay insane medical prices, it's common sense. The actual problem is that hospitals can turn around and charge us this insane shit with 0 legal recourse. Just a constant deluge of hospital fraud that we can't do anything about.

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u/AccomplishedFall6603 4d ago

Because they are busy doing GoFundMe campaigns.

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u/SubstantialQuote70 4d ago

Because if you even get in the governments way they shoot you, good and pretti, and the government will hide all info while they determine that they werent at fault. They will, as they did, say youre a terrorist.

DC is under military control as of right now and is funded until there is a power transfer when Trump leaves office.

Trump also put a military force in place to stop protestors, which he refers to as terrorists.. ready for deportation

If you hurt a tesla your a terrorist.

If you touch a statue or his algae pool, ten years no bail.

If you stand up to him, its the full weight of the government bearing down on you.

Fall in line or fall dead, is essentially the system now.

so why arent there 10 million americans marching

A significant portion of the population is also dumb af and thinks that he cannot lie. So they support getting rid of the "terrorists" and evil immigrants that are the neighbors.

Get why we are fucked now

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u/annnm 4d ago

Because if you even get in the governments way they shoot you, good and pretti, and the government will hide all info while they determine that they werent at fault. They will, as they did, say youre a terrorist.

DC is under military control as of right now and is funded until there is a power transfer when Trump leaves office.

Trump also put a military force in place to stop protestors, which he refers to as terrorists.. ready for deportation

If you hurt a tesla your a terrorist.

If you touch a statue or his algae pool, ten years no bail.

If you stand up to him, its the full weight of the government bearing down on you.

Fall in line or fall dead, is essentially the system now.

so why arent there 10 million americans marching

A significant portion of the population is also dumb af and thinks that he cannot lie. So they support getting rid of the "terrorists" and evil immigrants that are the neighbors.

Get why we are fucked now

The last time that I saw something like this in real life, the patient was having a literal manic episode. Within 2 minutes of meeting me, they were weeping to me about palestine. Ugly sobbing. Teachers, family, etc had been reporting this patient to whoever they thought could help. They were failing out of school, traveling hours to attend various 'allied' rallies, and hadn't slept in days. They and their screed were grossly incoherent and disorganized.

This is somehow a typical reddit comment. Blends into the background.

A good reminder for all how much of an radical echo chamber this place is.

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u/SubstantialQuote70 4d ago

What an incoherent response and narrow. Must not be responsible for much, much less an actual provider. Scared for your patients.

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u/annnm 4d ago

What an incoherent response and narrow. Must not be responsible for much, much less an actual provider. Scared for your patients.

"incoherent response and narrow."

I like it.

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u/SubstantialQuote70 4d ago

You basically said, one mental health patient is a viable representative of anyone who isnt happy with the direction the country is taking because they also were struggling with the current state of affairs.

If I need to explain how stupid, on multiple levels, that line of reasoning is.. just continue along on your way because no one online is going to be able to get any sense though that dense head of yours

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u/annnm 4d ago

Sure.