The thing is--they could easily solve some of the endemic issues through disclosure of what procedure they are going to do--but the healthcare system is so corrupt. ERs are notoriously terrible.

The amount of bureaucratic B.S. is absurd. They don't even give you an itemized bill. They can't even do the most simple things.

If a doctor had a disclosure statement like--uh--how much something is going to cost, wouldn't that be a good thing? But, no, they cannot even tell you that most of the time given a certain procedure.


This absolutely needs to change! I am with you.

It causes me anger because my father is currently disputing with a hospital based on a ER visit during which they gave my brother an IV for lack of fluids and they're trying to charge $10,000 USD for it. That is absolutely ludicrous.

I get that doctors have to do things quickly and maybe a disclosure statement wouldn't be possible in certain life or death situations, think of somebody who has just suffered a traumatic injury for example; however, the irony is that the way the U.S. medical system works, almost everyone has to wait a ton of time to be attended to anyway. Especially for mental health diagnoses. And that is truly one of the most messed up things about the U.S. medical system. The way everything has been privatized is simply disgusting, in my opinion.

It's like, if you privatize an ambulance service, for example--and this has actually happened--it causes so many problems! It's almost like for-profit prisons, eh? Sound familiar?

Ugh. I don't know if there will be a solution anytime soon. I just feel like knowing your stuff is good. But obviously this doesn't work in all situations. And being firm is really good, too.