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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 92 points 2 months ago (68 children)

The shit thing is that the American healthcare system is designed to put the blame on the healthcare providers and not the politician, hospital administrators, private healthcare networks, and insurance companies that actually control the cost of healthcare. Media like this just reinforces this and errodes what little public trust we still have with the providers.

I am a provider specializing in orthopedics and rehabilitation, and I have literally no ability to tell you how much my care cost, or how much money the hospital is making from my own labour. That's unless I break the law and just treat you for free and write the appointment down as a consultation, which I do as much as I can get away with.

Healthcare doesn't pay the way it used to, very few specialties make an obsesne amount of money compared to the time you spend on education, and the time you spend at work. If your goal is to make a lot of money, there are a lot easier fields of study with much higher returns than healthcare.

Most physicians nowadays make slave wages until they are 30, even longer if you do a fellowship. Then you spend another decade paying off your student loans. Most physicians graduating now won't really make anything until their 40s, and so you have about 20 years if you don't burn out to make enough to one day retire. At the peak of their career in your 40s, the average MD is pulling in 250-300k and working 55-60 or more hours a week at a hospital. Meanwhile a person with an MBA is making more with a master's degree with a 9-5 at a bank.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My other half and I have been dealing with an elderly family member recently, and the amount of intentional stupidity and obtuseness on the part of the people on the money side of the problem is breathtaking.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, getting a straight answer from the billing department even for providers is super frustrating. A lot of it is because hospital networks and private insurance companies have secretive reimbursement contracts that they don't want providers or patients to have access too.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not just getting a straight answer, its getting the same answer twice from the same person that seems to be too hard.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, same thing here. A good practice is to write the date and time of the call, who you're speaking to, and the calls reference number. I will usually summarize what we discuss and then repeat the information back to them.

If you have all that information you can usually hold them to what they told you.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's what we have to do. Even then they play stupid.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 89 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eh, there is a different department for that.

[–] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they will bill him to death 5 minutes later, tops.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When my grandfather died, my mother had to block my dad from the front door because the goddamn billing department called LITERALLY 3 HOURS AFTER HE FUCKING DIED to know who would be taking care of the bill. He was ready to walk into their billing office and start swinging. So was I, but as a teenager there wasn't much I could do without transportation...

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

When my grandfather died and my mom got a call about a bill, she was understandably upset. I told her that I'd take care of it. She handed me the phone and I asked how I could help. They told me they were calling concerning ${GRANDFATHER_NAME}. I interrupted and said, "hold on, lemme go get him," and then muted the call and waited to see how long it would take them to hang up.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your boss: Well you used up all 12 weeks of your unpaid FMLA getting that little guy to all his cancer treatments, and you can only do that once every 5 years. But you still have 12 hours of PTO accrued and of course there's our generous bereavement benefit of 16 unpaid hours. So, please, take all the time you need to recover from this, up to the 28 hours of leave time available. In these troubling times, remember that CCT Logistics in there for you, we're family after all.

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At one of the best companies I ever worked for, we had an employee who unexpectedly lost his sister with whom he was very close. I never got the full story, but it was sudden and tragic.

H.R. and his manager sat down with him when he went on extended leave to go over the over the policy for how much time he could take and then basically told him "fuck the policy, take all the time you need and let us know when you're ready to come back."

I really liked that company until private equity ruined it.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't have capital and nice things.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm too British to understand

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Not for long

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (20 children)

'Murica is a broken country

There's a reason why the civilised world sneers at it

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wtf happened to these comments. Holy shit

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Doctors never talk about costs.

That's why hospitals pay administrators so much money.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

they never talk about "hey, so let's go over my formulary and see which of what you're recommending is actually covered by my insurance". they turn pale at that sentence

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[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This? This is freedom. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ¦… 🎸πŸ”₯

i need to get out of here o_o

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With american logic couldnt you say that their service didnt work cause your son died so you want a refund? /s

[–] Jackinopolis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Enter suing for malpractice.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should wait a week or two for it to really settle in, maybe try to send something after the funeral, just mark it "past due".

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No no. aim it for the actual funeral day if you're going for maximum hit rate. Maybe get it hand delivered. With a brightly colored Uber eats coupon that advertises celebrations

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[–] sudochown@programming.dev 19 points 2 months ago

We are SO sorry….we have someone who is going to come to talk to you about something

*Billing specialist enters room to explain the payment plans available

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The doctors don't do that it's the responsibility of their employer.

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[–] zackhow@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s interesting that the fourth panel is not just a copy/paste paste of the third with adjustments. They drew it. Neat

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[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

A joke that basically just works on Americans... joke's on them one might say.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Things that never happen in Canada.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It must be great to have all that freedom, like the freedom from having universal health insurance:

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Before the pic loaded in, I continued the NIN lyric "and no one cares"

Turns out I was kinda correct

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Iirc there was a Simpsons or South Park or something - doc hands the dad an insane bill for a broken leg, the dad reads it and proceeds to have a heart attack. Doc: "ooh, sorry to do this, but that'll actually add another $25k"

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