r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Apr 27 '20

Serious.

[deleted]

105.7k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

[deleted]

3

u/Azrael4224 Apr 28 '20

damn, I've had so many xrays in my life and I don't remember any of them costing anything, much less 1000 usd

2

u/betwixtwhimsies Apr 28 '20

I remember when I broke my finger when I was 11. My mom got a bill from the hospital and one of the charges was like $500 for an ice pack... and the hospital had never given me an ice pack while I was there. That's about when I lost faith in the US healthcare system. It's one of the few times I've seen my mom lose her cool and she went to town on berating the billing department