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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-infuriating-paragraph-you-might-ever-read-about-the-healthcare-system-2013-2Steve Randy Waldman has an amazing (but very profane) rant about the state of the healthcare system, keying off of Steven Brill's epic cover story for Time on why healthcare costs so much.
Waldman's post is so angry and profanity-laced, there's really nothing that we can bring you of it, but the paragraph that set him off from the Brill article should legitimately get anyone's blood boiling.
By the time Steven D. died at his home in Northern California the following November, he had lived for an additional 11 months. And Alice had collected bills totaling $902,452. The familys first bill for $348,000 which arrived when Steven got home from the Seton Medical Center in Daly City, Calif., was full of all the usual chargemaster profit grabs: $18 each for 88 diabetes-test strips that Amazon sells in boxes of 50 for $27.85; $24 each for 19 niacin pills that are sold in drugstores for about a nickel apiece. There were also four boxes of sterile gauze pads for $77 each. None of that was considered part of what was provided in return for Setons facility charge for the intensive-care unit for two days at $13,225 a day, 12 days in the critical unit at $7,315 a day and one day in a standard room (all of which totaled $120,116 over 15 days). There was also $20,886 for CT scans and $24,251 for lab work.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-infuriating-paragraph-you-might-ever-read-about-the-healthcare-system-2013-2#ixzz2Lp7kp11B
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The Most Infuriating Paragraph You Might Ever Read About The Healthcare System [View all]
xchrom
Feb 2013
OP
No. The health care industry is shifting profits into for-profit service providers
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2013
#2
If hospitals need money to pay for those that show up with no insurance at their ERs....
rgbecker
Feb 2013
#4
Well because you know, abortion and gay marriage are TEH MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES !!!11!1
MH1
Feb 2013
#12
The medical lobby in Washington D,C. spends 20x more than their nearest competitor.
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#10
Back in the 1990's, I had a son with Cystic Fibrosis. After sueing my health insurance company
Dustlawyer
Feb 2013
#15