“Unbelievable Insurance Nightmares: 50 True Stories That Will Leave You Fuming and Fearful”
They raised enough money for two more doses, two more months, before she died. I don’t know how much longer she would have lived with that medication, I guess we will never know, but at least some CEO got an extra $40K per month for a few months.
Took an ambulance ride a while back because I thought my appendix burst. I had never been in that much pain before and I couldn’t walk. I felt silly taking the ambulance though because the hospital is one block away and it would have only taken me 2 minutes to walk there. But walking wasn’t an option and driving definitely wasn’t. I kept getting really dizzy and passing out and couldn’t stay conscious. Anyways…that 30 second 1/4 mile ambulance ride costed me $13,500….
I work for a DME company. We exist solely for the shareholders in hopes of packaging and selling the company to a larger company like Medtronic. Our income is largely, perhaps mostly, based on over billing Medicare. We waive patient costs all the time on the basis that we will still make record profits year over year of medicare pays their part less than half the time they’re asked to.
This is happening at scale across the entire healthcare industry, the system is utterly vampiric. Healthcare could be so much cheaper if there wasn’t an entire for-profit industry dedicated to exploiting our poorly constructed state health system.
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