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Medical Costs have risen
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Found some old bills my Dad Paid when Mom had brain tumor removed in 1956. A 12 Hour Surgery . Anesthesia was 110 Dollars and the Surgery cost $750 Dollars.
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In my little town we had a Older doctor His office visit price was 5.00 and this up to the Mid 80's. He would also take stuff like produce for payment. When he finally retired the town went into shock when they had to see the Doctor in the next bigger town
My recent surgery to remove a skin cancer from my nose clocked in at $34,000.00 so far .
After my folks passed I found the hospital bill for my birth, from Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, MI. I have it in front of me. In 1950 the cost to deliver a child, consisting of seven line items from meds to delivery room totaled $61.71!
No reason to think anything is going to get cheaper folks.
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Took Mom (95) for a check up. Next thing they call a ambulance & take her to a hospital for a heart issue. That was good, but it wasn't that serious. Anyway, they keep her for 3 days as they wanted to keep watching her. Yes, some new meds & she is doing better. I can't wait to see the bills. My guess is that they saw someone with insurance & went for it. Hopefully Medicare & AARP will cover most.
I had both knees replaced last year. Total cost was a bit over $130K, including rehab. Medicare and Insurance covered it all. If it hadn't, I'd still be limping.
Radiation treatments at MUSC was 163K for 25 treatments.
Grdad45 ,i also had both knees replaced in the past year . Total was somewhere close to 80 thousand
Just think all those Biden voters crossing the line get free medical and everything associated with it. Makes me want to start speaking a different lingo.
Had a pacemaker installed about 10 years ago, horse pistol bill was 40,000.00+. I later asked the doc how much another heart procedure was and said you would have to ask admitting. I qouted the pacemaker bill. His answer was , "i get 600.00 to install one and the Pacemaker cost 1,500.00 to 2,000.00". go figure.
Insurance and law suits account for some of the increases.
After our first child was born in 1989 an elderly man at our church says to me “Having a kid is pretty expensive ain’t it?” I replied that yes it was. He asked “Know what it cost us when we had our first child? Two laying hens and three dozen eggs.” I laughed and said “Yeah things have changed.”
Hospital bills are fake; no one pays the price shown. Whether your stay is covered by insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid, the hospital has a list of the flat rate for most ailments, & that's all that they get paid. If they keep you 1 day longer than the standard stay, they don't get paid extra.
Hospitals don't make much money on average patients. But, get an unexpected complication, & the hospital gets to charge more to the insurer, & they can really profit.
"Nobody pays full price anymore; why should you?" --- Mervis Diamonds, Wash DC