I was thinking the other day while looking at the bills that I received from my insurance company, stating how much they were charged by the hospital & rehab facility for the 6 weeks that I was hospitalized, and that was $22,500 just for the rooms, not including testing (blood work/MRI's/CAT scans/medicines & Dr fees.
I figure it totalled around $30,000 and I'm not done yet.
I'm seeing a cardiologist now because of damage to my lungs and a gastrointestinal Dr because I developed anemia which could be caused by internal bleeding, which apparently I have because they detected blood in my stool (Nice
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Anyway, my point is that it's very, very expensive to be treated for the COVID-19/Delta viruses and if you don't have decent insurance (I have), you are royally fucked (good thing the Pubs failed at eliminating Obamacare, could you imagine if they succeeded?)
Then to be considered is how many people lost their insurance due to losing their jobs as a result of the viruses.
But, the insurance companies are going to eat the millions & millions & millions of dollars they have to fork over to pay the bills, right?
And the hospital won't have to charge more to make up for the cost of treating the uninsured, right?
Wrong. The insurance companies are going raise their already exorbitant fees for insurance & the hospitals will do the same to make-up for the uninsured.
The final cost of this Pandemic in lives and the economic devastation is has wrought & will contine to cause is really unimaginable.