Hospital Care Outrageously Priced without Medical Insurance
Last Thanksgiving, I ended up in the hospital. I had my third attack of severe stomach pain that sent me to the emergency room that year the Monday before Thanksgiving. They worked me over and finally determined that I needed emergency gallbladder surgery, but couldn’t do the surgery until they ran a bunch more tests and stabilized the infection in my gallbladder, which was ready to perforate. Thank goodness for good medical insurance! When all was said and done, I had a four day hospital stay, echo-cardiogram, chest x rays, upper GI, gallbladder and kidney ultrasounds and other tests. This doesn’t include the actual surgery, room, medication and everything else. My costs would have been well over $20,000 if I had not had insurance!