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    #41
    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
    Room charge will include monitoring equipment, 24 hour nursing care etc. (I expect).
    On reflection, it seems logical to include those things - but it's still an eye-watering amount for a nightly charge.

    and you have the bonus of paying almost $160 just to leave!
    Originally posted by Old Greg
    I admit I'm just a lazy, lying cretinous hypocrite and must be going deaf
    ♕Keep calm & carry on♕

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      #42
      Originally posted by Bean View Post
      On reflection, it seems logical to include those things - but it's still an eye-watering amount for a nightly charge.

      and you have the bonus of paying almost $160 just to leave!
      That was my favourite.

      The cost of an NHS inpatient day is about £400. IIRC that includes everything except surgical costs (but that is from memory).
      Last edited by northernladyuk; 4 October 2017, 12:43.

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        #43
        Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
        That was my favourite.

        The cost of an NHS inpatient day is about £400. IIRC that includes everything except surgical costs (but that is from memory).
        What else is there? You get one of those papery shirt things which shows your arse off to the world, and that's about it. You don't get free parking and snacks. And if you're under the knife, they don't even have to give you a lunch that you wouldn't want to eat anyway, unless you'd walked for days across the desert eating nothing but a vulture's leftovers.
        His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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          #44
          Originally posted by Mordac View Post
          What else is there? You get one of those papery shirt things which shows your arse off to the world, and that's about it. You don't get free parking and snacks. And if you're under the knife, they don't even have to give you a lunch that you wouldn't want to eat anyway, unless you'd walked for days across the desert eating nothing but a vulture's leftovers.
          Trick with hospital food (if the option is available) is to order the Asian vegetarian menu.

          Aside from that, the bed day cost includes meds, investigations, nursing care, disposables (swabs etc.) etc.

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            #45
            Originally posted by Cirrus View Post
            This is true. From what I remember of the Economist article. it wasn't that things are expensive in America; it's that they 'run' massively more tests than we do.
            Read and watched other stuff on US system.

            If you have insurance and your insurance pays for you to have treatment at that facility the price is less.

            If you don't have insurance at all or your insurance company doesn't cover that facility the price is more.

            The prices are made up to make it look like insurance companies who cover that facility get a discount.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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