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I've been in the hospital twice in the last two months and that isn't the case here. Even my nurse charged seperately.
Historically, physicians have *not* been employees of a
hospital. They have always billed separately. That
situation, however, is changing as younger physicians now
have no problem with being ordinary wage slaves working
for somebody else - in point of fact,
I've been in the hospital twice in the last two months and
that isn't the case here. Even my nurse charged seperately.
Times have changed, Roger. When I was in the hospital in 2003, the bill
was $22,000 and my insurance paid about 1/4 of that and the hospital
wrote off the rest. The only charge I had was from a lab worker who was called into surgery to take a biopsy. He eventually got paid by my insurance. This time, the bill was $18,000 just for 2 days of observation and my total out of pocket was $40 co-pay. Then two weeks later I had to
go back and stayed for 3 days of observation, which cost about $20,000
and
my out of pocket was $65. Best part was they gave me a prescription that will enable me to stay out of the hospital and that prescription is free.
BTW, the food wasn't anything to write home about and it certainly wasn't plentiful, but I did manage to lose 3lbs on it.
Some Hamilton philanthropists booked her as a headliner for
a gala dinner which is a fundraiser for charity. A cancer
clinic and a hospital refused donations from the gala after
getting really angry feedback from their other sponsors and
donors due to her being such a strident critic of public
health care.
Public health care in general
Public health care in general including Canada's
specifically, although the bulk of her wrath was aimed at
Obama.
Once again she was caught out by a political satire comedian
posing as a politician or serious journalist and shot her
mouth off in an embarrassing way.
or the proposed government destruction
of the US health care system?
I honestly don't know enough of your proposed plan to
comment but I gather that the plan you are about to get is
a political compromise and not what was originally
envisioned.
There's a place for public health - at the county level.
In my strictly personal opinion it should be federally
funded but locally delivered. Poor counties and even
states/provinces can't handle the load on their own.
In the US there are *many* publicly owned free standing
hospitals. Generally, they are operated by a 'hospital authority'
at the county level. That authority has the power to tax and that
tax appears as a line item on the property tax statements in that
authority's service area.
Last summer I was hospitalized at Providence. While the
facility is non-profit the services are contracted out. I
was charged for more than 3 different companies
representing doctors just in the ER. That's separate from
the Providence charges.
Then there's the imaging department for X-Ray/MRI/CT/CAT scans.
This continued
until I was released after a 3 day stay, and around
$35,000 in charges. With no diagnosis as to what the
problem was.
My point? One size doesn't fit all and your situation
doesn't for Alaska.
That's surprising. In 2004 I spent 3 days in a hospital and the bill
was $49,000 and change, the attending physician added his bill of
around $3,500 and the cardiac specialists also added theirs, which was
around $11,000 - but they knew what was wrong with me and they
fixed it (99% blockage in one coronary artery, I now have a stent in it).