Cost For Purchasing Family Health Insurance
To read Scott Ferguson’s hospital bill is to know the insanity of modern medical economics and the nightmare of 44 million Americans without cost for purchasing family health insurance. Here is an albuterol inhaler available at drugstore.com for $13.99. Centura Health’s St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver charged Ferguson $323.05.
Here is a 30-cent dose of the diuretic Lasix. Centura wanted Ferguson to pay $72.30. Ferguson, a 51-year-old musician with a heart condition, also got 28-cent tablets of Motrin for $12.70 apiece, $1.73 doses of Ativan for $75.60 a pop and Valium for $79.15 a dose instead of the drugstore.com price of $2.24.
Six hundred milligrams of an antibiotic called Cleocin is readily available at $9.54. Centura’s charge to the uninsured? How does $136.30 grab you? The bills from a six-day hospitalization for a heart attack last December threatened to grab Ferguson by the bank account and choke the
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