On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 3:33:07 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 2:12:57 PM UTC-6, Mark Storkamp wrote:
> > In article >,
> > John Kuthe > wrote:
> >
> > > On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 4:22:58 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> > > > I'll spare you all of the details but they were going to send me home after
> > > > the surgery and we had to beg them not to. I was very ill and couldn't
> > > > even
> > > > stand up! Oddly enough I am boiling hot, but no fever. I would think
> > > > since
> > > > I am not on the thyroid med, I would be cold. And wearing the jammies with
> > > > the fuzzy top was a bad move. I have fuzz stuck to the wound. But I can
> > > > shower with plain water later. I'm going to finish eating these ice chips
> > > > then go to bed with an ice pack. Fun times! Hard to talk and eat but I'll
> > > > make it.
> > >
> > > Hospitals and other medical/surgical places are the most expensive real
> > > estate out there! No more "admitted the night before surgery and then stay
> > > there days after", not anymore. Much more money to be made by kicking YOU out
> > > ASAP and get the next poor sot in there whose FOR PROFIT INSURANCE will PAY!
> > >
> > > John Kuthe...
> >
> > I don't know about that. They let me stay 11 days, and I was wanting to
> > go home pretty badly by then. And by the 10th day when they finally let
> > me eat the food tasted awfully good even for hospital food. By then, for
> > some reason, the one thing I really craved was a fresh baked loaf of
> > bread.
>
> Who was paying for those 11 days? A FOR PROFIT health insurer here in the U.S.?

I don't know about Mark Storkamp, but when my husband was last hospitalized,
it was paid for by his employer, which is self-insured.

His previous stay was paid for by my health insurance, which is a nonprofit.

As in Mark's case, he was pretty eager to get home by the time he was
released, even though it was less than a week each time.

Cindy Hamilton