Rattle snake bite medicine/care is super expensive
Why would the government step in and help solve a problem that they created/allowed in the first place?
Dude clearly had a protracted hospital stay, with ICU stay and everything. Plus antivrmom is very expensive. If this were 1860 dude would have died.
So people don't get mad. Someone sold us out. How did we get here
I heard antivenom was expensive but god damn!
There's no reason any medical treatment should be that expensive.
America they overcharge you for the most mundane shyt you would have to pay 1/3 overseas
Oh yes you can.
The bill is still too high!
Also, look at the Due Date on the below Heart Attack Bill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-14000-to-treat-a-snakebite-with-14-medicine/
Shockingly, the cost of actually
making the antivenom — of R&D, animal care, plasma harvesting, bottling, and the like — added up to roughly one tenth of one percent of the total cost. Clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of the antivenom accounted for another 2 percent. Other miscellaneous costs, including licensing fees, wholesaler fees, regulatory, legal and office costs, and profit to medical providers, added up to 28 percent.
Finally, over 70 percent of the cost — responsible for most of the "sticker shock" you see in so many stories about envenomation care — comes from hospital markups that are used as instruments in negotiation with insurance providers. Depending on the hospital and the insurer, some percentage of this amount later gets discounted during the final payment process.
"It's a markup intended to be discounted back down," Boyer explained in an interview. But if you don't have insurance? The negotiating is all on you. And if you happen to have a high deductible for medications, you have to cough up the deductible amount, which can
add up to thousands of dollars.
your life????
