US Woman Reveals Shocking Cost Of Staying In Hospital For Four Months With Coronavirus

A woman has shared the hefty costs she incurred after staying in a US hospital while sick with coronavirus. Check it out here, if you're feeling brave:

Posting on TikTok, user @letstalkaboutbusiness shared the itemised list which included lab work amounting to $350,203.50 (£250,700), a $324,349 (£232,200) intensive care unit charge and a $3,423 (£2,450) ultrasound.

In total, the bill came to an eye watering $2,850,776.10 (£2 million). Yikes.

Posting the clip, the woman wrote: "Four months in a USA hospital with Covid-19 total cost..."

Understandably, she ended the video with the word 'wooooooow'.

Here's hoping this lady has got medical insurance, eh?

TikTok/@letstalkaboutbusines

Fellow TikTok users were also in disbelief at the sky-high costs, with one person posting: "No wait, nooo this cannot be actually true right? This must be some joke right?"

Another wrote: "I'm now happy that 34 percent of my salary goes to taxes."

While a third commented: "No way that's real."

Another user joked: "America really is a third world country in a Gucci belt."

However, a fellow TikToker explained: "This is just what a hospital charges - it's not actually what a person pays. Insurance wipes out almost all of these charges."

TikTok/@letstalkaboutbusines

In another video posted to TikTok, a woman going by the handle @yorkshirepeach explained how the bill for giving birth can really mount up in the US.

She says: "A lot of people say, 'Well, how much does it cost to have a baby in the States?'"

Pointing to a list of costs, she explains: "Well, this is without insurance, with insurance I think it probably pays at about 80/20 is the usual insurance plan, meaning the insurance pays 80 percent and you pay 20 percent.

TikTok/@yorkshirepeach

"But what the pharmaceutical companies and hospitals do is jack up the prices, so that 20 percent goes higher and higher.

"So here, as you can see, a semi-private room, meaning you're sharing a room, it costs $25,000 there, and then another $26,000 for the actual delivery room, where you go back and have the baby.

"And then the other little bits and bobs that you need coming in at $69,000. Yeah."

Topics: Viral, Interesting, TikTok, US

Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at LADbible who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats. You can contact Claire at [email protected]

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