Woman in hospital for a month with COVID has nearly $1M in medical bills

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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences says that its average bill for a COVID patient was nearly $25,000 with ICU stays much more expensive.

A woman from Arkansas said she has been left with close to a seven-figure medical bill after she was hospitalized from COVID-19, as high treatment costs add weight to calls for people to get vaccinated.

She returned to Little Rock to be with her family and required further help to deal with the disease's after-effects. She said she was still getting steep bills for the aftercare, which included expert help in being shown how to walk again and cardiologist consultations. A dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is prepared in this illustrative image. Exorbitant medical bills for COVID patients are adding weight to calls for people to get the vaccine.Although she was diagnosed with the disease before a vaccine was available, she told THV11 that peopleThere have been regular stories of eye-watering costs for COVID treatment ever since the start of the pandemic, when Michael Flor revealed he had received a $1.

 

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Taking vaccines is cheaper.

Makes no sense. Get the damn shots!

That’s mostly the doing of the healthcare facility which is going to keep the patient in intensive care as long as possible in order to rack up those sweet bills.

That is another reason why we need MedicareForAll!

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