70-year-old man received the 181-page bill after his 2-month hospital stay. FMTNews Covid19
A Covid-19 patient is moved by healthcare workers at a medical centre in New York last month.
Michael Flor was admitted to a hospital in the northwestern city on March 4, and stayed for 62 days – at one point coming so close to death that nurses held up the phone so his wife and children could say goodbye. That includes: US$9,736 per day for the intensive care room, nearly US$409,000 for its transformation into a sterile room for 42 days, US$82,000 for the use of a ventilator for 29 days, and nearly US$100,000 for two days when his prognosis was life-threatening.
But in a country where health care is among the most expensive in the world – and the idea of socialising it remains hugely controversial – he said he feels “guilty” knowing that taxpayers will bear much of the cost.
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