The true cost of needing stitches in different countries ?

@cherokeepatti Oh my!
That's what soldiers used to do.

@Nimbus There was an older man here who was working on his rural acreage. He got bit by a copperhead snake, a venomous snake. He went to the hospital and he had to beg them to give him anti-venom. The doctor kept delaying it trying to make him think he didn’t need it. He didn’t get it until the next day. The reason was that it costs $100,000. The doctor probably thought the insurance wouldn’t cover it so they waited till they were sure. The woman who told me was his aunt and she had worked at the same hospital. When my uncle got bit by a rattlesnake in the 1960’s he got someone to take him to a hospital and they gave him antivenom. His total hospital bill was a whopping $300 and he didn’t have insurance so he paid it with his savings. That would be the equivalent of about $3000 today going by the inflation index. The price of anti venoms and many drugs and other medical things has inflated greatly in cost since Obama Care started.

@cherokeepatti Wow, that is a fortune!
Makes people thankful for the NHS despite it's inefficiencies.

@Nimbus The sad thing is if someone doesn’t have health insurance or is underinsured they will pay dearly. But a huge problem here is that transients want to get out of the weather and they’ll fake heart pain or something else and they’ll get admitted. There is no way to collect money from them because they aren’t working and have no assets. So And some of them don’t want to leave & they have a hard time making them. So they can take a few days off with a private room, a private bathroom, several meals a day plus grab things off of a snack cart and have a nice color tv in their room to watch all day.