50 FUCKING KWAZY hospital charges

I just got a $51,000 hospital bill for my Dad's stay in July. You got off easy...

The prices you listed makes me so thankful that I live in Canada. I took my son to the doctor last week to get his hernia checked and the doctor said that it had become huge and he has to get surgery right away to fix it.

So now I am worried about HIM and not how I am going to pay for it. I choose who our family doctor is, what hospital, what surgeon etc.

Doctors Visit - $0.00
Surgeon's Visit - $0.00
Surgery - $0.00
Hospital - $0.00

The only thing that will not be covered is his pain medication that he takes at home (it will be covered while he was in the hospital). We do however have insurance to help cover the medication. Each perscription costs us $5. Yep..total cost of his surgery will probably be FIVE DOLLARS.

When I think back to how many times my son needed stitches, how many times I have injured myself, the kids needed doctors care etc. it makes me wonder how parents in the U.S. without private insurance manage.

Well, I have Blue cross insurance and when I got all 4 wisdom teeth removed (entire procedure took only around 20 min) I had to pay around $1,200 and that was WITH insurance, without it, it supposedly was even more expensive. I'm not sure if I have bad insurance or what but everything is expensive.