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US patients charged for ‘hospital facility fees’ – even if they don’t set foot in one
(www.theguardian.com)
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I am currently awaiting, from Amazon, a number of braces, knee, wrist, back, neck etc.
Being homeless for almost a year is not fun. Basically all of the tendons in my body are shot after walking around 2000 miles.
Why not go to a doctor?
Well, 1, I am in waaaay too much pain and can barely walk. Car got stolen long ago. No busses where I am.
2, it would take 6 weeks to wait for an appointment, where they would either tell me to see someone else (another 6 weeks), who might actually give me the same braces... or more likely I would be so exhausted from getting to the office I would not be able to adequately describe my symptoms in the 10 minutes the inevitably 45 minute late doctor would have to talk to me.
3, even with medicare, it would be far more expensive to pay the deductible and inflated costs from the medical industry as opposed to just buying the shit outright.
4, go to the ER? Even more expensive, and I'd be basically writhing in pain for hours as my injuries are not immediately life threatening, and be exposed to almost certainly actual biohazards from people with open wounds, communicable diseases and of course just violent and stupid people.
American healthcare is where it makes more sense to writhe in pain at home.
Can someone from a functioning country please adopt me or marry me or something so I can emigrate there?