Three weeks in the hospital with pneumonia and lung surgery. Not including the surgery, surgeons, surgical rooms, etc....everything else was $325K. Since I had people sneaking food to me ('cause I'm a shitty diabetic) they checked my blood 8-10 times a day. They charged $65 for each time they checked it. Non-profit MY ASS.
The non-profit part depends on the hospital. They all are not non-profit. You'll just have to check with/about each.
And costs to the persons like us, is crazy high for sure. No argument there. But the expense to the hospital is also staggering.
From staff who have to be paid competitive wages or they will just go somewhere else, upkeep of building and property, with all the new equipment at staggering prices they are constantly rerunning wire for one thing or another. New equipment, which probably costs more than a brand new John Deere Cotton Picker at around 800,000.00. Sheets, needles and they love needles. Decontaminating a room (watched a contractor do a room next to my MIL one time person in the room had the flu and then was treated and released).
Not to mention people who don't pay their bill, and it has to be passed on to those who do. And not even talking illegals.
An aspirin runs like 12.00 for one, when you could have brought your own from a bottle that cost 3.00. But then they couldn't monitor what you take to see if it is effecting your treatment. And they don't know why something is working or not working. And they don't know you're slipping something on the side.
Since you're in the hospital because you're sick, best eat the crummy food and take their aspirin, so they can keep up with your health and they know what is going in and coming out. Eat what you want when you get out, and take your own aspirin.
BTW it's how I discovered Yogurt. I was of the opinion I would never stick that stuff in my mouth. And then.....
Went to the hospital with septic shock almost dead. They had 5 bags of antibiotics, all going at the same time which could not be mixed, so had 5 ports in my veins. Which they changed every 2 hours, but because they were high potency antibiotics they would eat up my veins so they had to change places, restick me every 2 hours. I said they love needles.
And sitting on the food tray was a tub of yogurt. Never would that cross my lips. I had put my food down.
And SB tries one. This is good here try a taste. I did, it was, eat yogurt everyday.
The reason for the Yogurt on the food tray is: The powerful antibiotics they were giving me was also killing off the good bacteria I needed in my gut, to digest food. The Yogurt replaced that.
BTW I was paying for the Yogurt whether I ate it or not.
Hospitals literally can't live without them, and can't shoot 'em. - True Lies except he was referencing someone else LOL
