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Hi Fishes,
Please help me to choose which one is better. Publicis Sapient - senior associate technology L1 UKG (Kronos ) senior software engineer.
Package is almost same.
Skills - Java, springboot, microservice
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‘MERICA 🇺🇸
I don’t argue that it’s too expensive - American healthcare is ridiculous. But I also wouldn’t reduce it to a NP administering the test - there’s a supply chain behind your swab that gets the test done.
And that’s the way we like it
All of our healthcare is ridiculously inflated.
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That’s what happens when people like this exist
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God bless the NHS
Wow that’s why people go bankrupt when they have a medical illness.
Omg, took the test in Madrid. Total amount: 70 eur.
The insurance company payed the cost but the total amount was eur 70
There are countries where all healthcare expenses are covered without cost all of the time. They have higher taxes, but it doesn’t cost $20,000 out of pocket in copays to have a C-Section baby.
EY2: birth is billed weird. I started my pregnancy in one year and ended it in another.
I was told I couldn’t have kids, so I had a high deductible ACA plan (there is no insurance through my work). I had a C-Section with significant bleeding. My son was born three weeks early so he had to stay in the hospital an extra day after I was released. There are deductibles and then copays on top of that.
He was worth every penny but there are places where people don’t have to blow through their life’s savings to have a kid.
You’re not paying for the 15 mins it took for the test, you’re paying for the 15 years of experience it took the nurse to be able to administer it in 15 mins.
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So that nurse getting paid $70K or whatever is really worth $700/hr. Come on...
What would the cost be to someone who isn’t insured? Is it $2,800?
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Free for uninsured through the CARES Act. You can also get privately tested directly through the labs for around $100.
If we were really so concerned with healthcare costs we would start charging a fat tax, smoking tax, incentive the production of healthy foods, raise taxes on fast food/nutrient deficient food or ban them, move to single payer and set rates with doctors, simplify administrative work for medical professionals, expand the number of medical school enrollees, expand the scope of procedures NP/PAs address allowed to execute, bring back automation of procedures like anesthesia, etc.
But people tend to just complain about the bill so nothing will happen.
Just wait until full-scale vaccine production. Someone is gonna get super rich.
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You would hope so since we already put 10 billion into the research costs. These companies can't claim to be recouping costs when they already got paid.
That sounds like the gross charge. That number is nonsense. What did your insurance actually pay?
So I’m from China. The test in my hometown is easily assessable and cost 60CNY (less than 10USD).
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The NP talked to me about the test from behind the plastic, and then a guy/kid/intern (I’m not really sure but he looked 16) administered the test 😂 after dropping the tube on the pavement.
When he came at me with the swab I wondered why the NP didn’t administer the test!! I had no symptoms before (just an minimal exposure and DR wanted to be safe) and now I have a sore/scratchy throat from that swab - go figure.
It will also take 8-9 days to get results. 🤦♀️
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Lol, “insurance covered the whole cost” so who cares if the imaginary cost was $2800 or $28000000. It was free for you, and your insurance worked as it should.
Your insurance pays for the test... but someone has to fund the insurance. Us.
I know insurance doesn’t pay the full amount they’re charged, but this is what hospitals and insurance want. Hospitals gouge prices because they know insurance will pay for it, and insurance is fine with that so they can charge more for policies, and make a larger margin.