I can't help but observe how much that would all have cost if it had happened back in Canada: $0. And with no billing or other fancy paperwork to sort through, and the amount of money changing hands would have been a lot lower. And before anyone starts to make uninformed statements about Canadian socialized medicine, no, it would not have meant a six week wait before treatment; emergencies are handled immediately, just as they would be in a US hospital (that is, a US hospital for people with good health insurance, as opposed to a many-hours wait in a free one).
I'm with Aetna right now, in a classic PPO, so bills fly willy-nilly and have to be watched carefully lest someone make a mistake and overbill me. Kaiser is an option for me... maybe I'll switch providers at the next annual benefits open enrollment. I'm fed up with the never-ending flow of nickels and dimes (and sometimes dollars and twenties and Benjamins and the occasional gold brick).
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Date: 2010-04-20 02:13 am (UTC)I can't help but observe how much that would all have cost if it had happened back in Canada: $0. And with no billing or other fancy paperwork to sort through, and the amount of money changing hands would have been a lot lower. And before anyone starts to make uninformed statements about Canadian socialized medicine, no, it would not have meant a six week wait before treatment; emergencies are handled immediately, just as they would be in a US hospital (that is, a US hospital for people with good health insurance, as opposed to a many-hours wait in a free one).
I'm with Aetna right now, in a classic PPO, so bills fly willy-nilly and have to be watched carefully lest someone make a mistake and overbill me. Kaiser is an option for me... maybe I'll switch providers at the next annual benefits open enrollment. I'm fed up with the never-ending flow of nickels and dimes (and sometimes dollars and twenties and Benjamins and the occasional gold brick).