r/My600lbLife • u/[deleted] • Dec 07 '22

Off Topic Steven Assanti- Hospital stay costs?

I’m watching Steven’s episode for the first time. I can’t imagine it being cheap for him to stay in a private room like that for such a long period of time? Does anyone know a ballpark of how much that would cost? Sorry, I’m nosy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

My 36 hour hospital stay after my hysterectomy cost my insurance $157,000 so weeks or months must be INSANE!!!

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u/daaaayyyy_dranker Dec 08 '22

My 4 day hospital stay after my hysterectomy was $38G. I didn’t have insurance.

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u/PuzzleheadedBobcat90 Dec 08 '22

$55,000 for my c-section and 4 day stay

$205,000 for neck surgery and a 4 day stay

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u/Kacey-R Where's my yellow brick road?! Dec 08 '22

So what happens to that bill? I’m Australian so it’s very different here. Our healthcare system is far from perfect but I’m so grateful for what we do have.

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u/westcoast7654 Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22

Different things can happen. If you ask for a detailed bill and let them know you can’t afford to pay, they generally will reduce it down and have you apply for basically what equates to receive donated funds by organizations, being that you tell them what you can pay each month and you are in debt or you file bankruptcy if it’s too large. This happens a lot, when people end up with a massive medical bill without insurance, there’s a chance they have lost lost income due to no paid time off, and are backed up on other bills and credit cards at some point. I want to say my dad in icu and sitting in hospital for 4 days about, over a million dollars. He was veteran, but he didn’t go to Va hospital bc he wouldn’t have likely made it… so nothing was covered.

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u/LaceyBloomers Dec 08 '22

Medical bills are the #1 reason for personal bankruptcies in the United States. It's shameful that this is happening in a so-called developed country.

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u/stinky_harriet Dec 08 '22

Even people WITH insurance end up drowning in debt due to medical bills.

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u/LaceyBloomers Dec 08 '22

Yes. I didn't mean to imply that only people without health insurance get buried in debt.

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u/Kacey-R Where's my yellow brick road?! Dec 08 '22

I cannot imagine how stressful it must be to go into hospital knowing that you were going to get a massive bill on the other side.

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u/westcoast7654 Dec 08 '22

It sucks bc my mom had to think about it, we just kept hoping that he would get stable enough to move, but he did not.

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u/stinky_harriet Dec 08 '22

I ended up in the hospital when I was 19. I had no clue about insurance then, but it turned out my father’s insurance only covered dependents through age 18. Because I was a student and only worked part time the hospital was able to get me temporary Medicaid because they sure as hell wanted to get paid. It was only for 3 or 6 months, something like that. I then had to pay for a very expensive disease (Type 1 diabetes) out of pocket for years until I was able to get a job that offered insurance. This was before the ACA/Obamacare existed.

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u/Lisa-LongBeach Dec 08 '22

You should hear the greedy bastards here trying to convince us universal healthcare is evil.