Disheartened Americans Reveal The Astronomical Medical Bills They've Received

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Sep 16, 2019 6:00 PM EDT

2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders tweeted out on Saturday asking followers about the most outrageous medical bills they've ever received. Let's just say, some of the replies are something else - like, the cost of purchasing a house. Reading through these makes us grateful that we've never dealt with anything of that scale, but it also makes us wonder why these costs are even necessary in the first place...

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    Text - Text - Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders What's the most absurd medical bill you have ever received? 01:15 15/09/2019 TweetDeck 3,425 Retweets 14.8K Likes
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    Text - Text - @Timcast 23h Tim Pool $16,000 for all the work done related to a kidney stone It involved me sitting in a room, drugged up, and the doctors not knowing what was causing the pain After they figured it out they sent me home with painkillers, said they can't do anything for it, and sent me a 16K bill Bernie Sanders @Ber... 1d What's the most absurd medical bill you have ever received? 5,034 t2502 633
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    Text - Text - Весса @Becca2400 Replying to @BernieSanders Account Summary Patient Name Statement Date 02/17/19 Service Date 01/04/19 01/11/19 Type Of Service Inpatient Service Location Hospital Account Number Total Charges $103,569.45 01:45 15/09/2019 Twitter for iPhone 304 Retweets 1,766 Likes
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    Text - Text - Laura Lape @Laura Lape Replying to @BernieSanders $35k to birth a baby
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    Text - Text - @_RoseManning 1d rose Replying to @BernieSanders idont know 13,000 for getting told I have kidney stones t56 656 Victor Boyer @VictorBoyer3 1d $18,000 for the same 2218 5 281 vic-dago @vicdago I've had two separate procedures to remove kidney stones a month apart. Each procedure was $40K so total $80K. I paid out of pocket total $400 Califernia Dreamin sotss LAUR CANTON Thanks Medicare. t15 202 3
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    Text - BernieBro 2.0 @kburton40.1d Replying to @BernieSanders and @politics_nut $2600 for an hour in ER for a CT scan and an Advil-total of one hour. Nothing wrong w me. t114 1,157 40 BernieBro 2.0 @kburton40.1d $22K bill for my husband that was just an exploratory outpatient procedure to see if he needed an actual treatment (re veins in his legs). Couldn't afford to have the procedure bc the exploratory was $5k out of pocket. L285 10 730
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    Text - Farron Cousins @farronbalanced Replying to@BernieSanders Few years ago in the ER with my daughter suffering a severe asthma attack. Rep from billing came in and made us pay $300 BEFORE they would send in a doctor to give her a breathing treatment.
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    Text - Creature Comfort @FemaleBernieBro Replying to@BernieSanders $1,200 a month for a prescription until hit my 3,500 deductible Not nearly as horrible as most of the posts here, but it drains my account and often overdraft it because I need things like gas in my car, groceries, and paying bills It's a viscous cycle
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    Text - LaDawn Stuben @ladawn Rern Replying to @BernieSanders I can't pick just one, but the total is pretty absurd. Total Owe Total Billed Total Plan Paid $90,199.82 $449,086.16 $22,218.80 Other Cigna Websites Follow 01:26 15/09/2019 Twitter Web App 183 Retweets 1,152 Likes
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    Text - Kuato Lives #medicare4all or... 1d KUATO EUReplying to @BernieSanders $1600 for out of network anesthesia. Everything was supposed to be covered, and he used out of network anesthesiologist. 2354 34 487 Deborah Newell Tornello 1d Happened to me, too! I had NO choice in anesthesiologists for foot surgery that was supposed to be covered (in- network surgeon and hospital). I was already unconscious when the out-of- network doc on duty that day came in Had I been awake, I'd still have had no
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    Text - Samuel Douglas @CANCEL_ 15h Replying to @BernieSanders $480,000 for my Dad's spinal fusion surgery. That's more than we paid for our house. It was "in-network" too. We refused to pay & told the hospital they had to work it out with Horizon, but they kept sending us the bill for months. Eventually they stopped. Who has $480,000? 21 L10 38
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    Text - JE Cooper @je cooper Replying to@BernieSanders $12,000 for less than 1 hour in the ER. Lower back strain. The doc touched my back for all of 3 seconds, wrote me a prescription for lidocaine patches and steroids and said, "have nice day"
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    Text - Soul @soulus Replying to @BernieSanders What is a medical bill? I live in Australia
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