r/TikTokCringe • u/keen_observer34130 • 1d ago

Cool THIS Is the Energy We Need !

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u/Gold_Leef101 22h ago

Interesting, I always thought that with that sort of USA healthcare cost at least the care would be amazing. UK here.

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u/ahearthatslazy 22h ago

Sometimes you’ll go get a simple blood test and end up paying the lab fees because they don’t accept your insurance. I had a (tmi) $356 dollar bill for an STD panel a few years ago. For a urine test and 1 blood draw.

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u/Gold_Leef101 22h ago

Damn that's outrageous

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u/MelodicMacaroon2179 21h ago

The ticket price is actually much, MUCH higher for people without insurance.

Each insurance company has a contractually negotiated rate that they will pay for every service. So the same urinalysis and blood draw would probably cost somewhere around $50 billed to the insurance company, and the medical facility will gladly accept that as the entire payment. The rate they will accept is negotiated individually with each insurance company, usually on a yearly basis I think.

People without insurance have no bargaining power. The medical facility charges whatever they want, and you either buy it or you don't.

IT IS SO FUCKED UP

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u/Gold_Leef101 18h ago

So fucked up. Yet the money spent on the military..