The Buckets by Greg Cravens for May 18, 2018

For a good yuck, and assuming you have insurance that will cover most of it, take a look at the bills submitted to the insurance company without regard to how much they’re actually paying. Then imagine those bills are your problem to deal with. You’ll keel over. Laughing, of course.

As a Canadian, I don’t really get the joke… instead, I’m just laughing all the way to the bank.

Poor poor Buckets, and poor Cravens…. so true, and so many people going through that misery and stress. I still don’t understand why you can’t be told what the cost will be up front, and how much your specific insurance will pay.

As a French, I can’t really relate to the “joke” either – though from my point of view it is more of a tragedy :(.

As a citizen of the US of A, I can only see our vampiric medical insurance industry as a joke in the most questionable taste.

oh PLEASE! you are supposed to get healthy here, if you keep stressing up you will just get your health AND PAYMENT WORSE. so just freaking relax of your wife will be in the bed next to yours SOON!

I can’t imagine having to pay for such medical treatment. I’m a Canadian and have full coverage for anything such thing. About all I’d have to pay is the TV or internet service, if I was even up to it. I have a small savings account for the little extras, just in case I get hospitalized. What I do have to pay for are my prescriptions that aren’t covered by my private insurance.

Count your blessings…..you could be pushing up daisies. Medical care here in the States is phenomenal when compared to third world countries.

As a European, don’t know what you’re talking about. Must be something like those student loans I keep hearing about.

Yes, insurance in the USA is awful! We pay and pay and pay, then when we do finally need it, we find what we would have had to pay makes us sick all over again. Yet, having friends in other countries, has showed me that the USA is still rather much ahead of the rest of the world.

An actuary aligns statistics with an insured population and tries to maintain a higher volume of policy premiums paid to claims paid. An MBA looks at claims paid and says “We paid that much to save a cartoonist?”

MEDICARE FOR ALL!

With everything that happened to me when my hernia strangulated (see my comment yesterday) the bill from the hospital was over $250,000, no insurance (I’d been laid off for over a year at that point) and no medicare (I hadn’t been on disability long enough to qualify). so I’m looking at the bill, wondering how in the world I’m ever going to be able to pay it, and my eyes go to the bottom of the bill where it states that I’m considered a charity case and my final bill is $50. I paid the bill imediatly.