Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)18:49
No.6727102

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)18:49 No.6727102

AMPICILLIN/Sulbactam
Hospital cost per unit 10.00 8 units = $ 80.00
Hospital charge to patient 8 units = $ 3,024.00

MOXIFLOXACIN IV 400 mg
Hospital cost per unit 43.75 1 unit = $ 43.75
Hospital charge to patient 1 unit = $ 557.00

VANCOMYCIN inj, 1 gram
Hospital cost per unit 9.75 5 units = $ 48.75
Hospital charge to patient 5 units = $ 1,935.00

CLINDAMYCIN 30 mg capsule
Hospital cost per unit 7.52 2 units = $ 15.04
Hospital charge to patient 2 units = $ 108.00

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)18:52
No.6727188

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)18:52 No.6727188

Replies: >>6727531

This is just becuz tort reform and the doctors regulated by the gubmint. If we has the free market doctors would pay you to go to them because they would have so much money and competitive pricing!

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)18:56
No.6727327

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)18:56 No.6727327

>>6727033 (OP)
?Vaginal deliver in L&D Unit:
>$4,500
>Cesarean + Epidural/Anesthesia:
>$5,000 + $1,500

OP, you didn't mention how these are combined. You have you standard vaginal at 4.5k, then tack on 1.5k if your wife wants an epidural, then another 5k if the MD decides she needs to go under the knife. Oh yea, that's a surgery right there, so that's a 2 to 4 day stay at the hospital at 1k per night, plus nursery care for the baby who will get his own, separate bill.

The Slavic Caligula !O.N1d/WL9c
10/30/12(Tue)18:59
No.6727403

The Slavic Caligula !O.N1d/WL9c 10/30/12(Tue)18:59 No.6727403

Replies: >>6727512

If you want to fix the problem... stop the Jews who love to sue from advertising on TV for medical malpractice cases!

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)18:59
No.6727414

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)18:59 No.6727414

Replies: >>6727510

The prices don't even level off. Old numbers but relavent
Hemodialyzer
>patient cost: $6
>cost of material: $18
>annual revenue(USA): $110M

pacemaker:
>patient cost: $6000
>cost of material: $75
>annual revenue(USA): $6.75M

hip replacement
>patient cost: $3000
>cost of material: $100
>annual revenue $0.5M

stent and catheter
>patient cost: $3000
>cost of material: $30
>annual revenue: $1.75M

source: The Economical Impact of Biomaterials: MJ Lysanght(Brown University) ASAIO J. 2000: 46, 515-21

The reasoning I've heard for this inflated cost is to recuperate profits lost in R&D but come on...

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:03
No.6727510

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:03 No.6727510

Replies: >>6727562

>>6727414
>R&D costs

beta-lactam antibiotics have been in use for over 50 years, and we still have them at 3,000% markups when administered in by a hospital.

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:03
No.6727512

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:03 No.6727512

>>6727403
>Is your hip, that you fucking paid for, critically failing at a terrible time and just ruining your day/week/year? Were you given an incorrect dosage or wrong medicine by a nurse? Did a surgeon leave a scalpel inside of you? Well fuck you, no money.

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:03
No.6727531

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:03 No.6727531

>>6727188

and here come the idiots

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:04
No.6727562

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:04 No.6727562

Replies: >>6727679

>>6727510
The R&D cost doesn't necessarily have to be the respective R&D cost to the product. A lot of products never make it to market and have to be paid for by the ones that do.

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:05
No.6727599

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:05 No.6727599

> in-patient meal: $60

And yet the food is so crappy.

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:08
No.6727674

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:08 No.6727674

Billing is just fucked. But don't worry soon we'll all be able to buy medicine at those prices, and by "able" I mean "forced to".

Anonymous
10/30/12(Tue)19:09
No.6727679

Anonymous 10/30/12(Tue)19:09 No.6727679

>>6727562

R&D has nothing to do with this when a hospital charges you $500 for a bottle of pills which you can buy for $50 in a pharmacy three blocks away.