Certain Americans may have to pay hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars out-of-pocket for COVID-19 treatment, even if their symptoms are mild to moderate, a new study finds.
This is just a good way to kill millions of us - make surviving unaffordable. It’s already happened to millions and will continue. That is what the USA has become - a deadly place to live for several reasons, this being one of them. Part of the big plan …
Nothing is certain except death and taxes…
ADD bankruptcy…due to sky high medical bills and POTUS who delights in sabotaging ACA!
American Exceptionalism in the Trumpian Era means electing The BIGGEST LIAR, The BIGLIEST INCOMPETENT IMPeetus + The Most Cruel and Vengful CONMAN!
When Trump lies, denies, delays and does nothing…Americans die unnecessarily!
These costs will result in fewer patients self-reporting symptoms and getting tested, both of which are poisonous to a public health campaign where tracking is key.
It found that even Americans exhibiting moderate coronavirus symptoms could be hit with four-digit medical bills, and not just at emergency rooms.
That almost guarantees that Bernie will stay in the race to fight for fair health costs.
THIS. As been pointed out by many, there’s little upside to “free testing” if a positive test results in forced hospitalizations that can costs $10K+. Who wants to spin that wheel, knowing the wrong spin bankrupts you? Most will avoid testing for this very reason, spreading the disease as they travel along…
People will be turned away at emergency rooms and doctors’ offices. There are ways to talk to online people right now to help determine whether one has it or not.
Testing is key. That should not cost an arm and a leg.
Something is very wrong if this is the plan.
No, only those at risk with severe symptoms need to get attention. Most can self-quarantine and recover.
Considering the costs of not getting ill people into the hospital system before they infect others, the insurance companies should be paying them instead of the other way around.
I was going to say that realistically speaking all of this would be adjusted by appropriate legislation and subsidies/rebates/etc. But then I remembered what country I’m living in.
How are South Korea and Japan handling this crisis? I mean aside from having ample amounts of test kits to test for the virus as opposed to the U.S.?
What was the extent of the promise that Katie Porter extracted from the director of the CDC? Was that only for the initial test? The government has to pay for all costs of this national emergency IMHO.
I forgot about that. Hmmm.
The only thing I’d add to that is once they test positive it shouldn’t be entirely self-quarantine – the local public health agency should be tracking and following up for compliance, with big fines if the positive individual is found to have broken quarantine. (in fairness, it seems to be exceedingly rare for anyone to break a quarantine on purpose after they’ve tested positive – it does happen though)
Yes, but only one in America so far (that we’ve heard about, that is).
But I thought Disaster Donnie was going to make China pay for everything?
There will have to be followup because (at least according to some reports) people who recover keep shedding virus for some time after they’re not as sick as they were. So there’s going to have to be some kind of monitoring to say “Yeah, you’re feeling better, and we know you’re tough as nails and don’t want to malinger, but you really have to stay in quarantine so you don’t kill people.”.
Profit driven medical system amps up costs in order to profit. This is news?
This is why Bernie won’t throw in the towel any time soon, or at least it’s another reason.
Well maybe an other pandemic or two and Congress will finally agree to Medicare for All.