This Is What's Wrong with Health Insurance
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 00:15 — Jinghao
An FML entry tells it all: "Today, I had horrible pains in my stomache area so I went to the doctors. They couldn't find anything wrong and sent me to the Emergency Room for X-rays. After spending the entire day in the hospital, they tell me I'm slightly constipated. I had to pay $400 to find out I had to take a shit. FML"
People go to the hospital and use the emergency room for the dumbest things. This is why our health system is overtaxed (in the non-IRS variant of the word's meaning) and why Americans pay over twice more than what the Japanese pay per capita on health, yet are less healthy.
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Looks like the real
Looks like the real discussion about this is on Al's facebook.
My only question: How often do you think this happens?
Quite often. It has to happen
Quite often. It has to happen on a broad scale in order to account for the vast differences between the effectiveness of the two health care systems
I blame the FDA and AMA for
I blame the FDA and AMA for propagating a system that scolds people who don't go to the doctor for everything. If you have Medicaid, you're forced to see a doctor monthly.