The 70-year-old man said goodbye to his family before miraculously recovering.
Michael Flor, a Seattle resident, surprised doctors and family members when he recovered from a life-threatening coronavirus infection this spring.Flor, 70, shared the 181-page document with The Seattle Times, which noted that he has insurance and Medicare coverage and so may only have to pay a relatively small amount of the whopping total.
Flor was hospitalized at Swedish Medical Center near Seattle for 62 days, according to The Seattle Times. His wife told the outlet that, at one point, he woke up and said, “You gotta get me out of here. We can’t afford this.”Just the charge for his room in the intensive care unit was billed at $9,736 per day. Due to the contagious nature of the virus, the room was sealed and could only be entered by medical workers wearing plastic suits and headgear.
The congressional measure to shield people from hospital bills has been called an experiment in universal health care for those with one special illness.
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