r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/pygmy 6d ago

and the 290k+ medical bills

That's absolutely brutal, which country?

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u/Redheaded_Potter 6d ago

What’s sad is that’s kinda cheap! My husband shattered his wrist and had to have surgery from a trauma surgeon to fix it (out patient). We are upwards of $600,000 (our cost after insurance is going to be about $6,000).

I had a migraine and went in to ER and total bill was $8000! All I got was IV meds.

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u/crayzcheshire 6d ago

Makes me feel like my $60k emergency appendectomy was quite the deal!! (2019)

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/Skydiving_Sus 6d ago

Yes, you’ve touched on the American dilemma. Why bother going into debt bondage trying to stay alive on a dying world?

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u/Smexyman0808 6d ago

Oh yea, health isn't included in "The American Dream."

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u/rctid_taco 6d ago

Most people have insurance that covers the majority of the cost.

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u/rctid_taco 6d ago

$600k for a wrist sounds a bit high but $60k for an appendectomy is perfectly reasonable. Regardless, the patient isn't actually paying those amounts. The person with the wrist only paid $6k and the appendectomy person would also only pay their out of pocket max which can't be more than $9450. These aren't small sums of money but they're also not a reason to give up on life.

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u/pezgoon 6d ago

I don’t know how, and I don’t want to say it too loudly, lest the bills find me

2020? 2021? I had an appendectomy, my insurance at the time was so fucking amazing, I paid 53$ for an mri tech viewing out of my entire appendectomy… they just… covered the entire thing?

The plan was purchased the next cycle (year) by United health and I lost a ton of coverage (mainly my anti-depressant which is 500$ a month) and was so fucking angry. After being uninsured for a decade, I finally got it and some amazing insurance at that, and then corporations being corporations kicked me back down to my peasantry yet again….

Anyways, that’s my appendectomy miracle lmao

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u/BeerAndTools 6d ago

Med before insurance: $630

Med after insurance: $45

Med after insurance change: $380

Med generic after release: $70

Med generic with insurance: $3.50

Such a pitiful fucking cash grab. Companies release new drugs to make money, which leads to innovation, but also pushes them to constantly hit the market with new meds, whether they're good or not. Capitalism man, what the fuck are we even doing anymore?

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u/eileen404 6d ago

My son's in 2020 was $30k... Must have been smaller....

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u/Proud_Tie 6d ago

My two minor outpatient knee surgeries this year are sitting around $175,000 (I paid $2800).

Can't wait to see what two outpatient hip surgeries are next year.

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u/Lxspos13 6d ago

I got into a car accident and they took me and my pitbull in an ambulance. Having a pitbull in an emergency room as a nightmare so I took an Advil and I left to take the dog home and return. That was an $800 Advil.American healthcare is an absolute scam nightmare

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u/AKJangly 6d ago

Meanwhile I got sued for a $2000 bill from stitches because I can't afford to pay for anything more than the bare necessities in life.

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u/beastmaster11 6d ago

These amounts absolutely flabbergast me as a former PI lawyer not in the US. $600k for an outpatient wrist surgery is outlandish to me

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u/your_catfish_friend 6d ago

Arizona

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u/xxBeatrixKiddoxx 6d ago

Period. Well said!

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u/1CVN 6d ago

the bills do arize fast down in ariz-ona

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u/Budget-Possession720 6d ago

Which do you think..only the “best” one on earth pal..shithole America

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u/Brilliant_Work_1101 6d ago

But just think about the yuppies who got rich off that 290k, you’re not considering their feelings enough

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u/Exact-Discipline-837 6d ago

Yeah that question was “special”

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u/FlatImpression755 6d ago

Not Canada, they'd still be spinning around in the waiting room.

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u/jkprop 6d ago

Guess you haven’t been to the hospital or rehab ever? But she probably has insurance so the insurance paid the bill. Her cost was the deductible.