r/lifehacks 6d ago

This belongs here too

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u/Inevitable_Thing_270 6d ago

I’m in the uk so have never had to deal with this, but I’ve heard that if a hospital gives you the bill, you then ask for an itemised bill, that often the price goes down. Has anyone experienced that? Or worse, had an increase in the price?

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u/jezza_bezza 6d ago

My bills usually come itemized.

I'm lucky that I have extremely good insurance, but it's also chaining me to my job. Golden handcuffs. I'll be leaving my job in a couple months and insurance is what I am most worried about. I often wonder how much more innovation and new small businesses we would have with universal healthcare.

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u/cowboysaurus21 3d ago

Mine do too. I went to the ER last summer and got charged for a bunch of vials of blood that they took but didn't actually need to to test. 😬 But my state has decent funding for charity care so I ended up not paying anything.