Saturday, May 05, 2012

Pay the Hospital with Salt Water

When Kadizzle got his bill from the emergency room in Globe, Arizona, he was furious.  After waiting six hours to be seen Kadizzle got his three stitches in the finger for the princely sum of $1,500.  The American health insurance industry is rotten to the core, and health care in this country needs and enema.  Examining the bill it turns out Kadizzle was charged $26 dollars each for three bottles of sodium chloride (the medical term for salt water).  The salt water was used to clean the wound.  The exact same salt water can be purchased for $2.00 per bottle from the internet.  Kadizzle's owes the hospital in Globe, Arizona $147.   So that comes out to about five bottles of salt water.   So just to be fair Kadizzle will send the hospital 12 bottles of salt water.  According to the Hospital that would be worth $312, but will only cost Kadizzle $24.   The Hospital will get twice what they asked for when they sell the extra salt water to the next person they rip off.  If you go to the hospital take your own salt water, you can get it at any drug store, and it is medically approved.  Tell them to pour theirs back in the ocean.

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