04-06-2019, 03:03 PM
I make no secret of the fact that I disdain ALL things medical;
With the ONLY exceptions being those of stitching up wounds or setting broken bones (necessary support for the body's own healings) - but IMO the rest is like 99% hogwash and open, visible ripoffs.
A very long article from Time is attached.
It has been cleaned up to make it a bit easier to read.
Source URL:
In that article there are some lines which definitely reinforce my own observations based upon personal experiences, and here are a couple of those specific lines:
I could go on endlessly about ripoffs done to me by these medsters, but I will not further bore you with my anecdotes here.
Hopefully some folks will get some good info from the article.
With the ONLY exceptions being those of stitching up wounds or setting broken bones (necessary support for the body's own healings) - but IMO the rest is like 99% hogwash and open, visible ripoffs.
A very long article from Time is attached.
It has been cleaned up to make it a bit easier to read.
Source URL:
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http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,2136864,00.htmlIn that article there are some lines which definitely reinforce my own observations based upon personal experiences, and here are a couple of those specific lines:
Quote:...all the usual chargemaster profit grabs: $18 each for 88 diabetes-test strips that Amazon sells in boxes of 50 for $27.85; $24 each for 19 niacin pills that are sold in drugstores for about a nickel apiece. There were also four boxes of sterile gauze pads for $77 each.
Quote: ...and $108,663 for "SPECIAL DRUGS," which included mostly not-so-special drugs such as "SODIUM CHLORIDE .9%." That's a standard saline solution probably used intravenously in this case to maintain Scott's water and salt levels. (It is also used to wet contact lenses.) You can buy a liter of the hospital version (bagged for intravenous use) online for $5.16. Scott was charged $84 to $134 for dozens of these saline solutions.
I could go on endlessly about ripoffs done to me by these medsters, but I will not further bore you with my anecdotes here.
Hopefully some folks will get some good info from the article.