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dixiegrrrrl

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6. I just today got the hospital bill for my masectomy that was done in July.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:39 PM

Aug 2016

(have not yet gotten the surgeon bill).

The operation was done on an outpatient basis, even tho I was in the hospital over 24 hours.
The bill was 7.700.
My share is 771.00.

Medicare.

I know 2 things:

If I had had the same operation on the West Coast, where I used to live, it would be closer to 70,000

and I know that we all should be able to have Medicare type coverage.

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Hospital bills [View all] left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 OP

Two words: Single Payer gopiscrap Aug 2016 #1

When insurance works. Liberal Veteran Aug 2016 #2

"angry about the ambulance thing" left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 #3

That's where a lot of the right-wing notion of comparison shopping for health care falls apart. Liberal Veteran Aug 2016 #4

"Oh, fuck ........" left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 #5

I just today got the hospital bill for my masectomy that was done in July. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2016 #6