A $1.1m hospital bill after surviving the coronavirus? That's America for you | Ross Barkan
It shouldn’t take a once-in-a-century pandemic to make policymakers understand the tragic absurdity of healthcare in the United States of America
After he nearly died from Covid-19, Michael Flor probably thought he couldn’t be shocked by much else. He had survived a battle with a deadly virus that had killed more than 100,000 people across America.
But Flor, a 70-year-old from Seattle, was hit with an incomprehensible hospital bill for his stay: $1.1m, the Seattle Times reported.
The bill included $9,736 per day for the intensive care room, nearly $409,000 for its transformation into a sterile room
