Originally Posted by suesiegel

My wife and I just got on to medicare. Before that we were first on COBRA when that ran out we went on private insurance with AETNA. The cost was 12,000 so as you said $1000 a month.

At that cost, I would have considered SELF INSURING
fortunately I did not. Four days in the VILLAGES HOSPITAL was billed at 50,000. AETNA paid 20,000 and that settled the bill in full. You would not like to try to explain why AETNA pays 20,000 and if I had decided to self insure I would have had to pay 50,000.

OUR SYSTEM IS SIMPLY INSANE. What is the real cost of medical care. For my four days was it 20,000 or was it 50,000.

We discuss cost of medical care like we have access to REAL NUMBERS.