Sometimes Hospitals will issue insane medical bills,

They expect you to not pay, that way they can chalk it up as an expense and a loss, send it to collections and write the losses as a Tax harvest or depreciation.

Those that have the money to pay, well, the Hospital just enjoys the nice check.

And in most cases if you have insurance, insurance doesn’t cover everything, which depending on deductibles and coverage, chances are, they don’t. (especially if you’re out of state for your insurance, or out of network, whatever the fuck that Orwellian term means).

Yea, there’s actually a secondary market to collect hospital debts and try to get people to pay for them.

But I’m sure there’s some sort of collections loophole that makes this shitty practice illegal. But I didn’t do enough research on it, so go explore if you want.

“Oh, I see you’re dying from Cancer or a Surgery, Let me also hit you financially” – The Sick Care System

As a side note

Administrative bloat is the number one cost expenditure for most US Hospitals, they’ll have about 10 admin positions for every one registered nurse. I pulled that number out of my ass.

And Some Hospitals are extra shitty and treat Nurses like sweatshop laborers.

And that practice of disrespecting nurses is also applying to Doctors and encroaching on their territory in a game of ‘politics’ in the hospital.

Let me ask you this; How many Hospital Admins do you know that pull a 30+ hour shift and sleep in broom closets?

Oh, weird, I wonder why the doctors do that and still get paid at a rate that doesn’t track with inflation.

In Closing

If Doctors got paid enough, they’d retire after five years of working. If Nurses got paid enough, they wouldn’t need to work that many hours at places that are ‘understaffed’. All of this would allow people to fill in more medical positions, have more medical professions, and allow people to thrive and grow in education and leaps and bounds. On top of continuing education that you might not receive simply doing ’rounds’.

Also, overwork, turns out, isn’t good for mental acuity and can lead to people making more mistakes. Which is bad. Duh.

But instead we got bloated insurance companies that act as cartels for ‘in-patient networks’. Small clinics are fighting their own malpractice insurance as if they’re not the clients, and large hospitals are committing malpractice but somehow not being liable at all. All the while, the front line workers get shafted, and now a new breed of ‘travel nurses’ and ‘travel doctors’ are on the rise.

The system has incentivized Freelance Mercenary Doctors more than keeping their core staff healthy and happy.

This really is a Sick System.

*Not Valid Financial, Legal, Life, or Any Advice