Yes I have I went to get an xray once that was 500 in alabama and when I busted my chin the xray + dermabond was about 870

Not in the usa but it was free

0$!

nothing cause I live in germany

I had to take my girlfriend to the emergency room a couple of years ago and she paid $50 out of pocket. We're in the USA so I have no idea how it was so cheap.

@M I A omg! I went to the emergency to get help with some physical issues ive been having, And they literally acted so careless and sent me back with zero help. I decided to take matters into my own hands now and Ive set up 4 different appointments with different doctors that specialize in the issues im having! I literally refuse to keep living "sick" and unwell. I rather be in debt than sick all the time. Whatever it is you're going through I hope you find a doctor or solution!!! ❤

America…..

@@mxgagat it's spelled 'murica 😅

Yep. Going through a similar situation. I feel so bad for my parents

And then the doctors who do the work don't even see any of it, it goes to "administration" (IE office type people who don't even practice medicine)

Literally

Yes

Whats a real crime is when someone dying of cancer who goes through a year of treatments and major surgeries and still dies then as youre grieving their death you get a bill for over a million dollars. And this is while you're insured (and get insurance through your employer and you work at a hospital) Its unbelievably cruel. This happened with my mom in 2006 right after he died. It got settled, but i remember how tramautizing that was for her.

The whole healthcare system in the US is a big Ponzi Scheme

Imagine living here

In Germany the same. ❤

@@davidgutesleben1266 Krankenversicherungen sind privat. Was passiert falls einen Tourist ohne Versicherung etwas passiert?

@@davidgutesleben1266 Actually no. In Germany the insurance get bills directly (you usually don't get to see them at all). But if you don't have insurance you can pay yourself. But it's relatively cheap, probably a couple hundreds.

@@Dominik356 Keiner wird unbehandelt fortgeschickt, auch wenn er nicht über Geldmittel verfügt wird einfache Hilfe gewährleistet.

Same here in Argentina, but the system could also benefit from a few major changes

If Hi is cheaper I insist they say Hi instead.

No the greeting was the bill with 1166$

​@@oltjonmelissa5454That's $250 then

I don’t need to be reminded how expensive health care is in America. We need more witch doctors 😅

No f**king way 💀

can you imagine how much it would be if something were wrong?

Almost 4000...and with discounts! Have you see without discoutns? First Bill was 11 000 something - i am assuming they got discoutns because her daughter works as a doctor too, and probably went to her hospital. I don't think i will ever go to America, let alone get sick there)) here if i get sick (i am a road now) and i don't have inssurance, would be like 30 dollar at most..

It's $3k WITH insurance too, so wtf does insurance even do?

@@jenem9618 Save you from the rest of that $8k

@@gummy5862 Apparently the 8k would come off anyway as a "discount" for not having insurance.

In Germany a Hospital get under $40 from the insurance for an ER patient without hospitalization, in Romania it’s $10-$60 per ER visit without hospitalization

Germany is the best when it comes to insurance

@@BryanFher Not by a long shot. I started chemotherapy in Germany: each session 100€ co-pay, finished exactly the same chemotherapy in Romania: completely free without a co-pay.

@@sebastianr1204 Yep, money wise most of eastern europe has the best rates in healthcare... legacy of the communist in many places... but I personally prefer the german model where doctors do not starve

@@HelloOnepiece In România physicians are quite rich. A first year medical resident has a net salary (after taxes) above 1000€, in France for comparison 1600€ with way higher costs of living.

That’s so messed up, 10k for stitches

I agree. I once received a bill after the doctor did nothing for me. I called and questioned, and it turned out it was a billing mistake. Shouldn't have been such a high bill.

Wtf 10k ? Brother..... damn damn. Here in India its like 10 dollars only 😢.

Whats!! In my island cost like $120 and if u have the giverment insurance 0 cost.

​@@ohhimark3691for 100 bucks I woulda just done it myself

In the US, I paid a total of $11452 at the ER for head trauma four years ago. That was a single visit. For all the subsequent visits and treatments it's been over $30,000. This is with top-quality insurance.

@@udubeats4543 I wonder why no one is filling the streets and squares of every city protesting. If people wants to keep it private that's ok I guess, but it's still too overpriced.

Here in Brazil, no charge at all, meds given too, no matter if you are foreigner or not

@@00B. That’s why you need higher taxes

Yes. CANADA, Australia, France, UK are far way better, US is the worse.

no... not a check up. the emergency room with tests and CT scan.

This is higher level of “check up” lol, not an annual physical, if there is/are abnormal finding and require admission, the bill will be triple

@@GorgieClarissa i’m in ireland and a 3 day emergency room visit with a 40 minute ambulance, 2 CT scans, whole brain and spine MRI, lumbar puncture, chest x-ray, consultant appointments, multiple blood tests, smear and medications cost me €0 so 11k is insane

@@lauryn6037 it did cost but not directly you’re paying insurance in your taxes every month or if you’re a tourist then from your insurance or ehic card which again is funded from your monthly payments

@@Nelcia642 yes but americans also pay taxes and then medical on top of ot

For the price of that CT scan you could get a major surgery done in my country

Watch her giving birth cost short, you’ll be sick for another 6 months after being 6 months clean of not being sick.

Doctor in EU gives u an olive: that's cost you nothing, couse you pay taxes, and I'll be glad to see you next time.

@@tymekkowalski6407 u gotta wait like 10 hours tho

@@backlawa7527 barely, and not if it is an emergency... That is a common American misconception tho. If you compare the stats, waiting times are about the same as in western European countries. Difference being, you dont get scammed for stuff you dont need while being there..

@@cc-bj9kv i had a broken arm and i had to wait 2 hours and a few minutes. And i am not american

​@@backlawa7527 You'd wait just as long if you were in America. It's pretty sh*tty, but it's the truth.

and then you felt ill when the bills hit

Yeah here it's good in Norway. Not cheap for Europe (is fine what am I talking about wtf😂), but cheap compared to the US. Still have to pay if you visit the doctor. He of course used his time to check me. ~30$

🤣🤣🤣🤣

If you are a traveler you still have to pay. So moot comment.

@Joe Troll Self-employed

You're really lucky and might have been because it was a small town. I've heard countless stories of people in socialist countries having to wait in huge lines to only be transferred or turned down. For some people, a simple cold took days to find a Dr. and by the time they found one they were almost better.

Ah. But Canada is cold as balls. I'd pay to live away from that cold.

@@tootynuggets We are not socialists.

Lol her doctor literally told her to go to ER

Do you buy out of province insurance? Because technically we aren’t fully covered when out of province. If, for example, we needed a helipad emergency medical lift to the nearest trauma center when out of province that would be out of pocket. But nobody I know gets out of province insurance?

My grandmother visiting from Hong Kong was sent to the ER for a suspected heart attack in Vancouver and we received a bill of CAD$4000 for similar procedures shown in the video. Emergency care for non resident foreigners is expensive. It is not exclusive to the US.

Australia O

This is the best example of "Heaven helps those who help themselves" I've ever heard!

La primera potencia económica mundial estadounidense, no es capaz de poner la sanidad al servicio de la población de manera gratuita y universal como si se hace en otros países. Son muy poco solidarios.

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Oh you have no idea. Depending on which insurance you have, you oay different rates. If you have state insurance the hospitals have to charge less thsn say if you have private insurance snd then you csn be charged up to 10 times as much. It's a nightmare.

​@@byronchavarria4954 interesting

​@@byronchavarria4954you mean where a foreigner would still have to pay out of pocket?

with or without insurance in america you’re still paying thousands. it’s crazy.

truth

@@quorented2849 PACKING BAGS

😂😂😂

it's me or my wallet

@@Life_is_a_scam At least you don't need to pay insurance, which costs much more. Here in Spain even surgery (or most) are free, which is better than complaining about taxes.

You know If you pay a cheap bill every month for insurance maybe you get 80/20 with like a 500 copay. So you pay 500 and now you owe like 2500 and they pay 80% you pay 20% and now the bill is under 1000 at the cost of a monthly insurance bill though. That and let's say something happened and it doubles the cost, they're still paying 80% on all the extra and you pay 20% if you have insurance and if you struggle to pay it you can talk to billing and get a payment plan. Now your 2k bill after imsurance if they did even more then in this video is spread out over 48 months. So if you have insurance you could have more done and the monthly cost would be like less than 50 dollars per month not including insurance cost which varies. That's pretty good. Even without insurance if you can get a payment plan with the billing department for 48 months or something because it's easier to pay 50 bucks per month for 2 years than it is to pay 2-3k all at once. I don't have insurance and if the bill came to 4k but they let me pay it over 60 months I could afford that. I'll sell my car and invest 75% and use 25% to pay the bill for 12 months to buy time and maybe actually make some money in the long run. I'm actually pleased with the price tbh esspecially if they can work with you with a payment plan. Esspecially for the level of healthcare you get. The bills are big because good healthcare people and expensive machines ECT. That's what you want when it comes to your healthcare man even if you have to worm your way through some bills and try to get a thing or two knocked off and payment over a period of time if you can't afford it all at once. Of course major stuff costs a lot more than just going into they tests ran to make sure something serious isn't wrong. But again, if you need major work then you're in a whole different situation as it is man. Getting an arm reattached is going to cost more than a cat scan and the monthly bill will be higher. Obviously. There's a lot of work we can do to reduce bills and we've come a long way believe it or not. Look at the historical cost of an MRI machine.

​@@TheAnnoyingBossyet, somehow, England and the UK have had universal since ww2. 🤔

The US are so caring about their citizens. Kind of grateful about the UK NHS.

You're right but I want to point out that if you're going to visit a doctor (like a dentist) you may have to pay a really small price; the price usually changes depending on how many members in your family work and how much they work. I live in Italy so this may differ from other European countries.

So what does the insurance cover at all?

@@ASS_ault You don’t have to be from the UK to understand it’s not worth coming to the US. I’m a US citizen and I say 100% better not to come here

@@ASS_ault nvm. U didn't get the comment and the reply to it.

@@ASS_ault well not the millions with cancer diabetes and or high risk things they can barely for. Like epipens which should be free.

@@ASS_ault accidents can happen to anyone, anywhere. I don’t want to go bankrupt for a broken bone

@@ASS_ault you obviously didn’t watch the video

They do charge for everything. There is a fee to hold your baby after delivery. My delivery cost over $30,000 and I honestly don't know why. I delivered at a teaching hospital. I'm sure they do charge for air.

Yes air is a gas so if administered there will be a charge

@@Gigilovehugs that's not what we ment

@@Gigilovehugs he meant the air in the room

@@scotiadunlop that's so cheap. My hospital validated parking so I didn't have to pay for that .

3k is never good for a few tests and a "everything is fine" with nothing done. Stuff like this would cost less than 300-200 dollars without insurance where I live

This is crazy... I come from Germany and we were in Italy without any additional insurance. My father suddenly had severe pain because of kidney stones. First he was treated in a small hospital at the holiday resort, then he was taken by ambulance to a larger hospital and treated there again... Costs: 25 euros

You went to the ER over a cold when you should've just given her water

​@@TheAnnoyingBosshe literally said she's an asthmatic and had difficulty breathing. As a nurse, difficulty breathing is in get help _now_ territory. Any healthcare worker worth their degree would have told them the same.

@@backwoodstherapy they gave her water and a generic nose spray and then sent her home I think you're blowing this out of proportions obviously

​@@TheAnnoyingBoss she's lucky that's all she needed.. if you can't breathe then you prepare for worst

😂😂😂😂

That's just the general bill. You gotta add on the bills from all the specialists amounting to about $14k total

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Fun fact: most people don't pay their medical bills anyways -- even though they probably can! That's why responsible people pay more. The more you know 👍.

​@kade7102 true, but just don't even plan on going back to that hospital.

Crazy right? I love it here. Had many long hospital stays over my time and I never had to pay a single dime.

Except for in monthly taxes of course but they are negligible when you can get well again for pretty much free

Well to be fair, they’re not “slightly” higher, they’re up to 65% in most countries in the EU for high salaries, while they only get past 50% in the US for seriously insane salaries (1m+). Career growth is also not a thing in the EU, you will hit a ceiling pretty fast if you live in a small country. It always depends on what you want from life :) Obviously, though, the EU is much, much better in terms of quality of life for the middle class. Having free healthcare (education is not free everywhere) is priceless.

Literally one year waits for non emergency issues.

you pay for it one way or the other. I mean....in the US, you can also just buy good health insurance while as Europeans, you pay for it thru high taxes.

Germany too...you pay taxes of course, but this is nothing against that bills you World have to pay

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Same in NZ cept we pay for the ambulance unless its a emergency such as car accident type thing

Ambulance rides are free depending on which state you live in aus, it’s not free in vic where I’m from unfortunately :c

@@thepurpleturnip534 its not free in Christchurch either except in some situations, but wellington has a free ambulance service

France too it's free

@@zairaclaine8685 wow. so you guys just enslave the doctors and make them work for free? and the builders, you force them to build it for free? and the materials, you steal them so they are free?

I second that ✋🏻

Please 😮

Yes, it is. I had a similar experience. Travel insurance covered everything. Don't go to US without travel insurance.

Whats a good travel insurance company?

The scumbags are going to burn through that allowance and ruin it for everyone who actually needs it I think. A little insurance and a payment plan with the billing department really turns expensive american healthcare supper affordable so long as you're not having brain or open heart surgery but at that point it's probably better to start a go fund me anyway bruh hahaha

Here it's $50 and I think that's too much, $300 definitely is

Never go to the emergency room for something like that. There is no reason not to go to urgent care. Emergency rooms are swamped full of people and have multi hour waiting times even when people are seriously hurt because of people going to an EMERGENCY ROOM for a little checkup and a note.

Or go to Canada if the flight is too long.

I did that. I was supposed to be in New York for 12 days but cut it to 9 days after a fall that left me with 2 broken fingers. Changed my flight= free. Visit to danish hospital = free.

What you mean bills came after 2 weeks, So in US you only need to pay the bill after 2 weeks, What if we flee the address, Sorry non us guy here, jus need to know your procedure

@@secularph8424 yes. Many people don't paid up. So it goes to debt collectors and it will ruin your credit score. With bad credit score you can't buy anything cheap or get a decent apartment.

Wouldn't you get in legal trouble?

good luck with that

That is correct. Frequently hospitals itemized for orders that are either not carried out or changed. Always always try to have an advocate with you if you are the one who is I’ll because it’s difficult if not impossible to pay attention to those details when you are the patient; if you can not have anyone with you question everything after the fact.

@@GorgieClarissa I actually had success with that at 19. I went to ER for what turns out nothing major (just chronic illness) and got an awful bill, even with insurance. I basically asked the hospital that "Hey. I make barely any money. I'm a college student. Could I get charity?" And filled out like 60 forms. They waived the rest of my 4,000 dollar bill and gave me a basically "in event of future emergency this year, discount covers 100%" I didn't go back, but hey. It's always worth attempting.

Oh God!

Oh ouch, I feel your pain and your daughter's.

@@scotiadunlop I'm pretty sure they charged me 2k for the popsicle 🤣

Ehm no

Next time superglue her forehead at home.

@@TheAnnoyingBoss That's the stupidest reply I've ever heard 😂. While I partially agree that "nothing comes free", that's literally the whole point of why Health Care SHOULD BE FREE. We don't care where we would pay more, be it gasoline or water or electricity bills. The thing which matters the most is Health Care and it should be Cheap/Free.

bro 💀

don't some people go to 3rd world countries for long term treatment to cut down medical charges? you could get ER and main treatment done where it's quickly done depending upon urgency, then go to a country where it's cheaper

If you're not at fault for the accident you usually don't pay it bro.

@@TheAnnoyingBoss umm, how does that work? do the one at fault pay the medicals bills? for that dotn you have to win the case first? because sewing is a huge process, aint it

@@TheAnnoyingBoss have you tried getting medical payments in full out of a car insurance company? doesn’t go well.

my country is developing and everything is free as long as you have national insurance. US is such a scam for developed country.

Yeah, but it is the liberal states with the highest hospital bills and charges. California allows illegal immigrants sanctuary status. Hard working americans are paying for the free healthcare of millions. They should have just left California. It is a dying place.

Nah bro it’s the opposite, countries with low cost healthcare have people that feel safer to pursue their passion profession and have a happier population

@@DiggOlive nah bro, places with small homogenous populations feel safer

It's crazy also how Algeria-a developing country is able to give free healthcare but the U.S-the richest country in the world, doesn't.

@@vicgamesvt9682 same in Brazil, no charge even if you need a helicopter, or even get some meds delivered from another continent by jets, no charge. We sure have some problems, it’s not an easy task provide free healthcare for almost 250 million people. If you are from another country, traveling here, you got the same treatment no charge, no questions

They just want the money. Why make statement like that if not sure yet. *sigh*

Yea, I’m not following this either…if the E.R “lies”, then they would of kept her there to bilk the mother out of more money…and why go to ER if you don’t have too? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Totally agreed. And seems impossible even to think of owning a house

They don't care about you living, they care about what money they can get from you. This is what happens when your society is run by sociopath and capitalism promotes sociopathy because only those who are the best exploiting people bringing more profit.

Well this is one of the reasons the doctors there make so much more money then in other countries

@@Timberjagi Did you see the $24 for the physician payment part of that bill? Doctors aren't getting paid that much, especially compared to the cost and length of training.

Its not expensive bro

I have similar situation happening except with my kid’s pediatrician billing department. They get insurance card every time I go and they keep billing me as a cash pay customer and not even billing my insurance. Funny thing is we have had this insurance for years and they have been at this doctor for years 🤦🏻‍♀️

omg that’s so much!!! i needed an ambulance in ireland earlier this year and it was free

America the only place where your better off calling an Uber than an ambulance. Actually in Australia you have to pay $50/yr or the same thing happens.... Friends baby wasn't covered she was charged $3500AUD. She only lived 5km/3miles from the hospital too.

​@@theresekatie4841 in the Netherlands we have to have insurance it's mandatory. ambulance is 100% covered

If it's not a secret, what country do you live in?

​@@ezhwt8fq he can live in literally like 90% of other countries in the world and wouldn't have to pay a penny. America healthcare is a joke and is the main reason I'm never going there-

Mine to 🇴🇲

@@bayanqueen9816 much love from 🇸🇦to🇴🇲

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@@Amri999 ❤️❤️❤️

Of course the bomb brings the money coming with all those patients

Hehe! Good!

Do you have insurance? If not they can put liens on your house, sue you, start deducting it automatically from your income, etc. It’s easier to just pay.