'I'm all for promoting vaccination, but we should all be able to agree that it's not super great for government to boast about a for-profit system that medically bankrupts people.' davidsirota
, with insurance companies no longer waiving costs associated with Covid-19 treatment as they did early in the pandemic, the average hospital stay totals about $40,000. Insured patients are responsible for an average of $3,800 with insurers paying the rest—still a financial burden for millions of Americans.
"There were some patients where it was $10,000 and others where it was $500," Dr. Kao-Ping Chua, a pediatrician at University of Michigan who published a study on Covid-19 bills earlier this year, told thein September."It gives you some semblance of what things will now look like without the waivers."that uninsured patients paid an average of more than $45,000 if they were between the ages of 51 and 60 and more than $34,000 if they were between 23 and 30.
Kliff, who has reported on exorbitant Covid-19 medical bills, said the CDC's threat to unvaccinated people was"accurate... Just not a message you could pull off pretty much anywhere else." Instead of accepting at face value and appearing to embrace a system in which the nation's biggest for-profit health insurance companies raked inin the second quarter of 2021 as the country entered the second year of the pandemic, one critic suggested, the CDC"should be focused on leveraging its institutional weight to help guarantee Americans can afford to visit the hospital when they are ill.
"CDC is a broken agency in a broken state in a broken country," tweeted policy analyst Anthony LaMesa."Doesn't make their awful communications strategy any less embarrassing, though."in March that a third of Covid-19 deaths in the first year of the pandemic were associated with a lack of health insurance, which prevented hundreds of thousands of people from seeking medical care.
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