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Take a look at the actual costs....
$16,000 for the actual surgery: I might be okay with this really.
$7,501 for two hours in the recovery room: HUH? A bed in a room with a heart monitor... Even if you have a nurse standing by tending only to that one person every second.... That can't be more than $200. Think about that for a moment.
$4,878 for one night's stay: HUH? A very small cramped hotel room with a few crappy meals and a nurse that checked in on him three times in eight hours? That's worth maybe $400 at most.
$4,562 for anesthesia: HUH? $4k to pump $30 worth of drugs into someone and then monitor them for two hours during an operation? Even if you pay them $100/hour, that's only $200 plus $30 worth of medication.
Fuck me with a broomstick already. No wonder why our healthcare is so fucked up.
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