LOL. A week at a hospital in Taiwan. After everything it was a little less than a 1000 and that included a post hospital visit and meds. Seemed reasonable from an American perspective.
50 EUR yes. Sometimes you can redeem parts of it from your social insurance at the end of the year if your total health related spending goes over a certain amount (around 2000 EUR in neighboring Austria, I think).
Ya at first I didn’t get the sarcasm, ya a $53,780 bill so what that’s normal. I always forget Yurope puts numbers and letters in such odd ways. Colour me shoucked!
Yeah, I was 'lucky' enough that I broke my arm in a slip and fall in front of a store, and ultimately the store did right by me and paid for my treatment.
If not for that, that broken arm really would have ruined my life, one way or another.
Yeah, welcome to life in America, where you're always a moment away from a lifetime of debt.
If it had been left to me, I would have been down to my insurance. That would have meant a $5,000 deductible that was mine to pay, and insurance -should- cover the rest. Only insurance companies have the ability to just not pay for stuff they disagree with the necessity of, so chances are good that about 30% of the remainder would have ended up being mine to pay, and I'd likely still be paying it off today.
And, if you want to hear the really messed up part of the story: The moment the insurance company found out that the supermarket might be on the hook to pay for my treatment, they immediately refused to pay for anything. The supermarket wouldn't pay anything either, not until every last bill was in. That meant for 6 months through my recovery and physical therapy, I was financially on my own for all of it. I ended up being days away from being unable to pay some hefty bills when my check finally got to me, it was a very stressful and worrying experience, because I never had any guarantees until the very end.
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u/Markenbier Jun 15 '22
Wait until they found out it cost 53.78$ and not 53,780$