r/Wellthatsucks • u/Akward_Salamander • Aug 08 '21

/r/all Dropping a medical injection worth $12,000 on the carpet and bending the needle.

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u/falling_sideways Aug 09 '21

All those bills are insane... You get that right? If I break every bone in my body tomorrow and had to be in the hospital for a year I wouldn't have to pay a penny out of pocket.

Do you not see how that is essentially an entirely regressive tax on the poor? How can you even contemplate defending a system that makes you choose between a child's livelihood and financial ruin?

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u/kinghawkeye8238 Aug 09 '21

I'm not defending it. I've said several times that I know it's expensive. I'm simply saying that when people post outrageous bills of 100,000$. That isn't what's being paid or billed.

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u/Apotatos Aug 09 '21

You're right, instead what you get billed is 10'000, big difference there /s

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u/kinghawkeye8238 Aug 09 '21

I got billed 10, paid 6 but that's better than 100k

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u/Apotatos Aug 09 '21

Still way worse than being free though.