"Gary" wrote in message ...

Cheri wrote:
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> "Gary" wrote in message ...
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> Dave Smith wrote:
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> > I spend 4 days in ICU and another 3 nights in the hospital. I was billed
> > nothing for all that.
>
> My God. If that was in the USA, you would face a bill of (just
> guessing) over $20K.
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> Are you kidding? Well over $75,000.00 would be more like it.

I believe you, Cheri. I'm just medical-billing challenged. 4 days in
ICU would certainly run it up quite a bit.
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My dh took a fall four or so years ago, he went to emergency, had a cat scan,
stitches in his eye, and treatment for assorted scrapes and bruises, stayed for
four hours total, the bill was $23,000.00 billed out to Medicare. Thankfully, we
had a pretty small co-pay in all of it considering the size of the bill, but I
spent 13 years without insurance, so I feel your pain. The only upside is that a
person finds out that the body is pretty good at healing itself, and there are
no hypochondriacs running to the doctor every time they sneeze among the average
uninsured person. :-)

Cheri