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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

So somebody explain to me how obamacare fixed ANYTHING with healthcare? Somebody explain to me why a same day surgery costs over $67K for JUST THE HOSPITAL! That's not counting the surgeon, or anesthesia, JUST THEM! Or why an overnight stay where they almost killed me cost $4K? Sure hoping I can get this all worked out and covered under the single copay like they told me it would be.

I thought it was bad before when it cost $28K in 02 to the hospital for replacing the rod in my leg which was a LONGER surgery with an overnight stay in the hospital. Once everything is added in I bet this BASIC procedure will cost close to $100K which is what 8 days in intensive care, the hospital, and 2 emergency surgeries cost me back in 01 when the accident happened.

Ferm, consider yourself lucky. In April my mom was admitted to the hospital for an intestinal blockage. She was there for a total of 10 days, during which time they took a healthy, alert, productive 95 year old woman and turned her into a vegetable that on the tenth day we had to remove from life support and watch die. And for that magnificent display of complete sophomoric ineptitude we had to pay $248,000 for just the hospital bill, not counting the bills from the doctor that prescribed the wrong meds that led to her death or a bunch of other bills. So count yourself lucky my brother, You came out of it alive, despite their best efforts.