Medical billing
Hospitals make a killing
As invoice chilling
Sep 07, 2016
Medi-fare:
About This Poem
Last Few Words: Hospitals and Pharmaceutical companies corporate shills
Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft
Medical billing
Hospitals make a killing
As invoice chilling
Last Few Words: Hospitals and Pharmaceutical companies corporate shills
Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft
Comments
no solution
A ghastly painting of the healthcare system. It conveys the message succinctly.
The sad part is that we have no solution for it.
No solution?
you mean none that you are willing to contemplate. The UK has a free at point of need, health service. As a UK resident I find it difficult to imagine the hard hearted attitude that must pertain to refuse to accept the obvious human trait of caring for one another. A person does not have to be a communist to believe that the poor are as deserving of hope as the very rich. Is that not what a great deal of Jesus' teachings was all about. Good poem, by the way.
British Health
I did my (post-)graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Once I got a severe infection from the animal care facilities. Could not even talk or breathe. My friend called my doctor. I had to register with a doctor on my arrival at the university. He came and saw me in my dorm at midnight and gave a shot of antibiotics. He saved my life. It cost me nothing. That was the only experience I had in Great Britain. The UK National Health Service is adorable. I do not know about the chronic illness or hospitalization.
In the United States, it is a very different story. My experience in South and Southeast Asian countries told me that I must have a good amount of money to have adequate healthcare.
The doctors or patients do not make the policy, but the business does. The problem is there.
Billed?
What really happens when someone needs treatment and they have already shown an inability to pay for treatment previously administered?
Medi-fare
Thanks for all the intelligent insights and feedback.
Unfortunately, the healthcare system is broken in many countries. With the ever increasing cost of health care and corporate interests owning pharmaceutical companies and chains of hospitals, the lives of patients are commodities that lose their value past their finances due date.
I visited a hospital that is part of a major group of medical institutions, When I asked the medical assistant if the doctor was in, he replied that the doctor had left at 6 pm. I explained to him that I had to pay a medical bill and I would have to wait till the next day to see the doctor and pay the bill. He cheerfully informed me that I need not wait till the following day as the hospital had, in the interest of patients, made provision for the Billing Section to be open around the clock.
Medical companies have mastered billing but not healing.