30 Americans Respond To ‘What’s The Most Absurd Medical Bill You Have Ever Received?’

Apart from our insurances being different in Germany: our babys are automatically insured via their mother right from birth

Oh my gosh i'm so sorry

Not quite, în the not so rich countries life has another value, being all they have. This country is in fact poor by loosing the value of life. Poor rich country.

Some developing countries, perhaps. But many pretty poor countries have a more sensible and accessible healthcare system than the US.

True, but both the emergency room bill and the aftercare would have come at a fraction of the cost. This does not mean that there aren't countless poor people dying every day of causes that could have been cured with the equivalence of a pocket full of change. We are a strange species.

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While healthcare is a huge issue here, the VA medical program is the exact reason I do not want the US GOVERNMENT bothering over my healthcare.

And It would seem is most Democrats given how many establishment Dems are so against free universal healthcare and M4A. Remember that both Reps and Dems are lobbied by major healthcare providers... the same ones that jack up healthcare costs and make the US healthcare system so uniquely terrible. Dem politicians are just quieter about it because their base actually cares.

On a personal level, it's really not about money. If I paid the federal government to provide single-payer healthcare, I would pay less than I do private healthcare and insurance. It seems, however that a majority of our citizens are worried some of that money may be used to help brown people.

@Daniela-lulia Balaciu, because our government is responsible for too many people. Those who are elected to represent us are so-far personally removed from their constituents that they cannot possibly get to know them, and see their real needs. American politicians are also deathly afraid of doing anything which may be "bad for business" but actually be amazingly beneficial to the people. So much policy is dictated by people who have financial interests. Look at the Food Pyramid. It has nothing to do with nutrition, but we were taught it in school, and told to follow it for decades until someone discovered it was written by lobbyists instead of scientists.

@M O'Connell  1. was there any referendum for health-care? or people are raised accepting this status-quo and don't know what to ask for 2. is the medical-care legislated at the state level or at the national level? maybe at the state level, the people can be heard easier 3. maybe there were so many sues for mall-practices, or from too much grief, that the medical system promote a defensive treatment, they change such a huge price for their services that there are few people daring to ask for their services, thus fewer possibilities for sues **** The money talk, the people don't. Dictatorship of the money?

Why?

If you’re in a rural area with a spring or something, the tap water would be amazing. I live in a pretty urban area and my dad builds water treatment plants. He will not touch the tap water.

Well, some places do not have good tap water - things are this bad in the US.

I'm one of those people. I do not have access to a municipal water supply, I have a privately-owned well, and the water tastes terrible.