The news media constantly talks about cases, hospitalizations, deaths, vaccines, lockdowns, and plenty more; but what is neglected is after the hospital visit. Then what?
Well, a pile of medical fees, that’s what.
In 2020, many of these bills were covered as healthcare providers flipped the bill, by and large. But now many of the large insurance company providers are or already have removed these policies, forcing many of these hospitalized Americans to potentially pay large sums of money out of pocket.
The University of Michigan – where the state is currently facing overflowed hospitals – surveyed over 4,000 citizens who hospitalized due to Covid-related issues, who had Medicare Advantage or private insurance.
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For the most part, these companies paid the fees. But not everyone was offered this luxury, and the bills quickly added up to over thousands of dollars in expenses.
By August of this year, they discovered that most providers will cutting their waivers.
Many insurers claim that it is justified to charge patients for COVID-19 hospitalizations now that COVID-19 vaccines are widely available. However, some people hospitalized for COVID-19 aren’t eligible for vaccines, such as young children, while others are vaccinated patients who experienced a severe breakthrough infection. Our study suggests these patients could have substantial bills.
Kao-Ping Chua, a health policy researcher at Michigan Medicine, in a statement.
Companies that removed the waiver would cause people with private insurance to pay roughly $3,800, and $1,500 with Medicare Advantage. This does not include the hundreds of dollars for the ambulance fees and extra doctors.
Chua recommends that people check with their provider if they are charged, as it may be a mistake to charge extra on some things, while other costs are not completely covered.
One of my main concerns is that the threat of high costs might cause some patients with severe COVID-19 to delay going to the hospital, increasing their risk of death.
Chua notes in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open that lawmakers need to enact policies to keep the costs waived for the entirety of the Covid pandemonium.
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Proverbs 11:15
This is yet another example of why insurance is overhyped junk, and you need to cut off all the non-mandatory garbage. You don’t need it.
Furthermore, I usually tell people to avoid the medical establishment in all facets because of the malpractice, horrible remedies (if you can call them that), highly misinformed and willfully ignorant staff, and the environment itself and so on; but I never really cover the asinine expenses for the most trivial stuff you can think of. So, add this to the list of why you must get away from the medical establishment.
And these prices are still with insurance that may cover some of the very basic fees, but that is it, and yet these prices are still absurd.
Putting all the Covid fakery aside for the sake of discussion, either solution just creates more debt, for a government that is the most indebted in the world, and a people that are the most in debt in the world, and cannot cease from their consumption.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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