A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.' - eviltoast
Former US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said he got a $5,000 bill for a recent ER visit, highlighting big problems with the US healthcare system.
  • gramie@lemmy.ca
    3·
    9 months ago

    And the other side is also fucked up. I have a family member who has been a doctor in the US and Canada.

    In the US, each doctor had two full-time employees just working on that doctor’s billing. In Canada, his clinic of four doctors had one person working part-time doing the billing to our government health insurance.

    • spider@lemmy.nz
      1·
      9 months ago

      In Canada, his clinic of four doctors had one person working part-time doing the billing to our government health insurance.

      This needs context. Was his clinic in Canada understaffed, or did Canadian health insurance paperwork require considerably less time to process?

      • gramie@lemmy.ca
        2·
        9 months ago

        His clinic in Canada didn’t need anything more than one person working half time to process all of its doctors’ paperwork to submit to the provincial health system.