This is from my first appointment with a new psychiatrist. - eviltoast

I’ll never understand why we pretend that things are this expensive.

USA, of course, because I can’t imagine anywhere else in the world working this much harder and not at all smarter.

FYI, Medicare is our government insurance for older or disabled people and is paid for mainly with taxpayer dollars as well as “small” premiums by members.

Screenshot of an itemized bill.The first line is a charge for an initial outpatient appointment lasting longer than 60 minutes, and is for 679 USD. The second line is a payment from Medicare for 149.49 USD. There is a third line for a Medicare Adjustment of 491.38 USD. The total patient responsibility is listed at the bottom and is 38.13 USD.

  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    9 hours ago

    For all you wrote, you failed to read. I said mental health care and dental. And when you go looking, a lot of those countries are missing one or the other.

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      7 hours ago

      Show me.

      I have free physical, mental, dental and eye in the US.

      And for all you’ve written in other threads, you’re so incredibly wrong mods deleted it all. You constantly fail. Sucks to suck.