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panader0

(25,816 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:34 AM Oct 2020

What would be the cost to the average citizen of trump's hospitalization including helicopter,

private rooms, small army of doctors, experimental drugs, etc, etc.
trump seems to think that everyone can get what he did.
Of course, the citizens paid for his treatment.

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What would be the cost to the average citizen of trump's hospitalization including helicopter, (Original Post) panader0 Oct 2020 OP
They said on Morning Joe redstatebluegirl Oct 2020 #1
That would be great. empedocles Oct 2020 #2
As a phony rich guy, he couldn't pony up jack shit. panader0 Oct 2020 #3
I spent 6 hours at the emergency room for an urgent but very simple minor reason last month grantcart Oct 2020 #4
An old friend had a wreck on I-10 and was helicoptered to Tucson. panader0 Oct 2020 #5
These days it's gone up to $53,000. Liberal In Texas Oct 2020 #8
More than $750 nt doc03 Oct 2020 #6
The Cost? Subservience to Putin. eom. Bad Thoughts Oct 2020 #7

redstatebluegirl

(12,264 posts)
1. They said on Morning Joe
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:40 AM
Oct 2020

if he signed himself out against medical advice your insurance will not pay for anything. So rich Donnie needs to pony up the cash because WE are his insurance and I refuse to pay.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
4. I spent 6 hours at the emergency room for an urgent but very simple minor reason last month
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 07:52 AM
Oct 2020

Just got the bill for $ 9000 (paid for by Medicare).


In Trump's case it would be hundreds of thousands but in all fairness you have to subtract the hundreds of thousands that would have been spent at the golf course if he weren't at Walter Reed.

The US taxpayer may have saved some money.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
5. An old friend had a wreck on I-10 and was helicoptered to Tucson.
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 08:00 AM
Oct 2020

Just the ride was $30,000, one way, and that was over 10 years ago.

Liberal In Texas

(13,458 posts)
8. These days it's gone up to $53,000.
Tue Oct 6, 2020, 08:56 AM
Oct 2020

Of course one of the things that drive up the cost is the medical personnel and equipment aboard. I assume in his little hop over to Reed he didn't need paramedics. Also it's hard to compare costs of a civilian helicopter to a military one. Marine 1 is a much larger bird (that burns more fuel) than the typical air ambulance. AND they fly two of them, probably for security reasons.

https://clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2019/10/how-much-does-an-air-ambulance-cost/




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