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Here's one from the USA, guy got appendicitis, some health cover but not enough, this is just one part of his $53,000 bill...MPH80 wrote:That £2000 figure isn't just A&E - it's simply 'if you run up more than this - we'll not grant you a visa'. There are immigrants who do abuse the system - come for maternity for example - where those bills can run into 10s of thousands if there's any complexity in delivery.
And you're right - to run up a £2k bill in A&E would be impressive ... but (say) a CT scan on a head injury ... and a few xrays on broken bones ... and a blood test ... maybe some medication too ... it's not hard to see how you'd get there. I once had a private hospital show me the bill for 3 blood tests my insurance was paying for - it came to over £700. That was before the consultant bill!
There was some story about A&E in the USA charging $35 for an aspirin (on top of all their other charges). I remember hearing it when I was travelling there last year during the Obamacare implementation debate. The hospital was arguing they were charging the fully loaded cost (administrators, buildings, storage, shipping etc) of the single pill + a bit of profit. But $35 for an aspirin?!?