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BillBrasky Memorial Political Chat Thread

stugotz said:
Also somewhere in the system needs to be a disincentive to go have a doctor check out a papercut.
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I think the disincentive is "I took an hour out of my day to get a paper cut looked at by someone."
 
Yeah I would say 25-50 dollar co-pay for a $125-150 exam is what it should be. Are you saying you pay 120 dollars, with insurance?
 
Every doctor visit should start with a psych eval. If the patient doesn't pass -- straight to the looney bin.
 
Think I paid about that much for the birth of my son
 
TownieDeac said:
Think I paid about that much for the birth of my son
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My wife’s entire pregnancy and delivery was $200 out of pocket.

We were admitted the night before she went into labor because of nausea and were there about 6 hours and she got zophran and an IV and that was almost $800 out of pocket.
 
My wife recently delivered a tiny epigastric hernia that was causing her discomfort at an in network facility.

Actual procedure took about 5 minutes. Small skin incision, snip the herniated fat, put in a few stitches.

We have the best (most expensive with highest coverages) insurance offered.

Our cost was ~ $2000.00.
 
My 21 month old son was in the hospital for three days due to DKA this summer. With the highest level insurance available through my wife's work, our FSA, our HSA which had been building up over the past couple years, and out of pocket limits, I'm not sure that we actually paid anything directly. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in that situation and worrying that saving my son's life would bankrupt our family. No one should have to have that fear.
 
BeachBumDeac said:
It'd be much better for the overall healthcare system if those tiny percentage of hypochondriac people end up at a PCP office or urgent care rather than the ED
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Couldn't we funnel them thru telemed and have them see nurses or PAs?
 
You all have much better insurance than teachers btw.
 
ConnorEl said:
My wife recently delivered a tiny epigastric hernia that was causing her discomfort at an in network facility.

Actual procedure took about 5 minutes. Small skin incision, snip the herniated fat, put in a few stitches.

We have the best (most expensive with highest coverages) insurance offered.

Our cost was ~ $2000.00.
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Why didn’t you do it? My dad is OBGYN and he used to stitch me up, remove moles and even cut out a cyst once.
 
mako1331 said:
You all have much better insurance than teachers btw.
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Our resident pro life party just loves making sure people are safe and healthy! Good for families! Teachers are very important so we need vouchers so you can send your kids to private schools with limited regulations about "teacher" qualifications and pay! Oh, Bootstraps!
 
redwing42 said:
My 21 month old son was in the hospital for three days due to DKA this summer. With the highest level insurance available through my wife's work, our FSA, our HSA which had been building up over the past couple years, and out of pocket limits, I'm not sure that we actually paid anything directly. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in that situation and worrying that saving my son's life would bankrupt our family. No one should have to have that fear.
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Our youngest had to have a surgery (elective, but significant QOL outcome) and when we had Obamacare, it would have been $12,000 so we had to push it off. Got insurance when I changed jobs last year and it ended up being about $1700 with my new insurance. The feeling that you can’t get care for your kid is pretty awful.
 
bym051d said:
Why didn’t you do it? My dad is OBGYN and he used to stitch me up, remove moles and even cut out a cyst once.
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Lol

Nah...

But thx for prompting some memories. My father (RIP) was a surgical subspecialist and cut on me a few times.
 
IamThunderbolt said:
Our youngest had to have a surgery (elective, but significant QOL outcome) and when we had Obamacare, it would have been $12,000 so we had to push it off. Got insurance when I changed jobs last year and it ended up being about $1700 with my new insurance. The feeling that you can’t get care for your kid is pretty awful.
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Premiums on my dads ACA plan went way up this year and he had to switch to some other janky company with a plan that has a crazy deductible
 
Don't even get me started on our parasitic health care system

We've gotten like 9 different bills since the birth of our son, half of which were wrong because BCBS misread something and thought my State Health Plan insurance was not the primary insurance, even though we switched it at the hospital. They admitted their mistake over the phone, but still sent like three other blils rejecting our claims. We also got some third party bill from a doctor who apparently walked past our room but isn't covered by the hospital (what is that bullshit?). Between Novant and BCBS nobody knows what we actually owe.

The entire system needs to be torched and turned into single payer. Our current system is rife with graft and third parties that do nothing to contribute to your actual health care.
 
The out of network doctors who consult on patients at an in network hospital (where patients have no choice as to who to see) is an especially infuriating wrinkle of our health care system.
 
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