Hospital care in America - the $10 cough drop
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#3Y5KV)
On Amazon, a bag of 70 Halls Black Cherry Sugar Free Cough Drops costs $3.84. If you want 70 of the exact same cough drops that have been individually repackaged by Safecor Health of Columbus OH, the hospital will charge you $700. Lesson: if you have to go to the hospital, bring your fucking cough drops with you.
invoices for my hospital stay are starting to come in. each Halls Cough Drop, individually packaged by SAFECOR of Columbus OH, is billed at $10. pic.twitter.com/OBzarOuvEs
- Matt Biddulph (@mattb) July 6, 2018