How would you feel if you received a bill for more than $34,000 after being tested and treated for the coronavirus? This pandemic is showing the entire world that the U.S. healthcare system is deeply, deeply broken, and there is no way that we can continue to go on like this. If coronavirus testing is quick, inexpensive and widely available all over the rest of the globe, why can’t that be the case here too? Democrats and Republicans have been fighting about fixing our healthcare system all the way back to the 1990s and they haven’t gotten the job done. Now we have a system that is a complete and utter embarrassment, and it is about to be overwhelmed by the greatest public health crisis that any of us have ever seen.
Even under normal circumstances, most Americans are deathly afraid to go to the hospital because of what it will cost.
I have written about this numerous times before, but not even I would have imagined that getting tested and treated for coronavirus would cost more than $34,000…
A woman in the United States says she was billed $34,927.43 after being tested and treated for the coronavirus, Time magazine reports.When Danni Askini first came down with the symptoms of the virus — shortness of breath, a fever, a cough and migraines — she was told by a doctor to go to the emergency room. .........read more.........
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