This is the cost of a Rattlesnake bite in America

Hope you have Obamacare.

Tell the IRS you are a Muslim.

Free Obamacare.

Utter carp. Sorry.

ban rattlesnakes!

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Did this actually happen to you, OP?

I am astonished that it would be that high...did
you or this person have intensive care emergency
and were in a life-threatening situation?

You can declare bankruptcy to discharge medical
expenses but you have to wait for 7 years to do
it again. My family went through this with an
insurance company which insured our son. It is
often termed "Catastrophic Medical Event" when
looking into legal aide. Our family never recovered
financially.

If the rattlesnake bite happened on private property
the person who owns the land may have insurance that
could help you...I would check that out.
Major bummer, OP.

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This is why we need single payer, stop the greedy
greed hounds from gouging people dry. If the sorry
sap who got this bill doesn't pay they'll go after him
for whatever he owns as well as, if necessary, attach his paycheck. That's how it works here, if you don't have decent insurance.

A single-payer system of universal healthcare cutting out the insurance vampires would have been better.

I'm so glad I checked this thread... This pic is awesome...

Oh... That med bill is criminal. Glad I live in Canada. Not perfect but don't have to go bankrupt to save your life from a snake bite.

Damn I would put a bullet in my head if I got that bill. Fuckers want it paid in fulł in 23 days lol. Obama care is a scam, they charge white folks full charge while giving free to blacks and illegals.

Most of that gouge was from Big Pharma and the hospital corporation.

"Single payer" with those guys still in control will not get any cheaper---it's just mandatory insurance like we have with Obamacare--with ever increasing rates and deductibles, and government goons making more decisions.

Regarding snake bite antivenom--it's about $20K/vial(but the hospital paid less than $2K) and most significant snake bites require 20 or so vials--so I would guess that the episode mentioned was not a real bad bite.

30 years ago, the old horse serum antivenom was more on about the $200/vial range including administration. The horse serum antivenom is still used on dogs and costs about $400 vial retail.

Last Edited by MarPep on 07/17/2015 10:32 PM

Single payer? We've definitely got some straight up DNC shills on here...

Note that the pharmacy drugs cost more than anything.

5 day stay, 150k.

I was in for 7 days (heart attack) and it was 193k

Holy shitsnacks!

gotta find a way to finance all those mexicans getting healthcare for free.

embedded costs, bro.

Send them ten dollars a month without fail.

Maybe twenty-five if you are generous.

There's nothing they can do about it.

Do not sign any payment agreement, just do that on your own.

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83K in Pharmacy charges. What did you do Vern mainline pure blow ? WTF is that 83K for the pharmacy for ?

all to give you 5 shots of antivenin that costs 10 bucks

So next time don't get treatment.

Yeah, dying from pit-viper bite has got to be a long horrible death. On the other hand, bites from Elapids--like cobra and mamba-- are quick and easy.

Yeah, same here with heart attack. Still paying three years later. And that's after they wrote off a bunch of it. I wonder sometimes if I will ever get it paid, but as long as you pay something, they don't seem inclined to sue or anything.


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Anti - Venum must be very expensive. Dang!

Duuuuuuuuudddde...

Wow!

1,000,040.00 hospital charge for a rattlesnake bite in Cali?

Thread: 1,000,040.00 hospital charge for a rattlesnake bite in Cali?

Making money is more important than peoples health. This is just crazy.

That was my reaction!!