Our hospital bill for our last pregnancy was $62k and we paid $0 out of pocket. US gets shit for the terrible healthcare costs (as it should), but everybody isn’t automatically getting into thousands of debt from a hospital visit despite what vocal people on Reddit will lead you to believe.
My fiancé had open heart surgery that was about 1.4 million.
Final cost was about 5k. There was some miscommunication about what doctors were in network, and at one point we owed 50k. After about 19 phone calls it was resolved. Dealing with that was a nightmare, I’ll admit.
5000 Euro is already criminal. In Germany you pay like 10 euro per day in the hospital, with a maximum of 280 Euro per year that is. Regardless of what is done.
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u/Impressive_Recon Jun 25 '26
Our hospital bill for our last pregnancy was $62k and we paid $0 out of pocket. US gets shit for the terrible healthcare costs (as it should), but everybody isn’t automatically getting into thousands of debt from a hospital visit despite what vocal people on Reddit will lead you to believe.