At least the bed looks comfy and can be adjusted in 2 different places!

Is the Italian place a lamp store?

Another day thnaking god cause I'm not in the usa

It doesn’t even need to be overnight! I’m currently sitting in a recliner in an infusion/cancer center because I am on a medication that’s given through IV every month. My insurance is going to pay a 5 figure sum for me to chill in this chair for about 90 minutes.

I’m a software engineer and the actual dollars paid monthly/yearly (not the fake high “retail” cost) are something like 2x my gross income.

It's definitely not very comfy

You don't have to pay if you die tho.
- That's not true. In here they will hold your dead body as an hostage until someone clears the bill.
- To be fair, this applies to any bed
And the view sucks, too.
- Unless you're the view too

I'm sorry but I need to inform you that the bed is not comfy.

Which one though
- Your mom's

I bought a home version of one for my mom in her final years. Doesnt look like a hospital bed but works like one. It was slightly less than $800 for a queen size with a 14in thick memoryfoam mattress. Today it would probaby cost 2gs

Or 300 from alibaba
- If you can get it from them that cheap go for it. Its a great piece of equipment whether or not youre an invalid

They are expensive in Europe as well, but most European countries socialize these costs.

Isn't that incorrect? The costs incurred by the NHS in the UK are much lower than what a hospital would spend in the US, especially on drugs, where there is a single market with limited customers.
- No idea about the UK. But in Germany a comparable hospital stay (single bed room) would be up to a 1000€ per day afaik. If you are publicly insured in Germany, you'd still easily pay 150€ out of your own pocket (otherwise the rooms have 2-4 beds).
  
  But I already learned in this thread that the costs in the US are far worse.
Still not nearly as expensive though, prices in the US are artificially inflated through collusion, while prices in the EU are kept down via the huge bargaining power countries have when negotiating under a unified front.
They are expensive in Europe

The major difference between European health care and American health care is that Europeans receive care closer to At-Cost than their American counterparts, who demand enormous overhead and profit. A band-aid in an American hospital can bill for $50. An IV can run you $1000. These enormous fees have nothing to do with the kind or quality of care (you can find price gouging in the dingiest rat-hole ERs right alongside Mayo Clinics). They're set by the hospitals because patients have no bargaining power, while state agencies have enormous latitude in setting flat rates.

That's also a big reason why American hospitals hate Medicaid patients (but love Medicare payments). Medicaid has a much tighter fee schedule than Medicare, so you can bill for more and at higher rates. Hospital admins in the states will argue they can't turn a profit on Medicaid (highly dubious, since "profit" for the office includes covering the inflated borrowing, real estate, and administrative costs the facility has to absorb). Meanwhile, whole practices exist to serve Medicare patients.

When countries, like the UK and Germany, begin outsourcing and privatizing their medical procedures, the prices rise to whatever limit the state is able to absorb. UK's current NHS cost crisis is being driven largely by the exploding cost of privatized and outsourced procedures, combined with an aging population that has elevated demands. That's where you see the most expensive health care in Europe.

By contrast, state hospitals in Italy and Norway are dirt cheap to operate when they're not on the hook for these extortionary private costs. Suddenly you're not getting charged $150 for an aspirin and caring for a baby in the NICU doesn't cost half a milly. The state budget isn't getting broken over the back of privatized profit-seeking care.
That looks like a single-bed hospital room. Depending on the country, they are expensive in Europe too because insurance only covers the bare minimum. Here in Germany you'll always be sharing the room with 2 - 8 other people, even if they have an infectious disease. You'll only get a single-bed room by paying like 200€ per day, by being immunocompromised or by having a very infectious disease.

Sad but so true! 😦

10 days for smashed leg. Still waiting for that bill💀

Funny thing. Some of my Norwegian family came to the US for healthcare they couldn't get in Norway. I believe it was some type of heart surgery one time and and I can't remember the other. So while it is expensive and out of pocket you can actually get that surgery when you need it.

Sounds like it was a specialist surgery that Norway's smaller population doesn't accommodate. Hardly an indication that other countries are flocking to the US for their on demand healthcare.