The fabled fog-of-war will conceal what is happening to the health care system itself, while the battle rages. Some of the doctors and nurses will go down in the battle. The doctors, nurses, and their helpers are like the trembling soldiers in an amphibious landing craft churning toward the Normandy beach where the enemy is dug in and waiting for them, with sweaty fingers on their machine guns and a stink in the pillbox. Right now, we’re in the heroic phase of the battle against a modern age plague.
What is that billing statement going to look like? Will the survivors wish they’d never made out of the hospital alive? Now imagine you have the stupendous good fortune to survive a Covid-19 infection after 21 days on a ventilator and go home. That was just for the hospital bed and maybe four lousy hospital meals, not the surgery or the meds or anything else. One of the line-items went like this: Room and board: 36 hours…$23,482.79. A month or so later, I got the hospital billing statement.
Only a few years ago, I went in for an ordinary hip replacement. The cable news announced the other day that Covid-19 patients placed in critical care may have to be on ventilators for 21 days. Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays
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