They found something 4cm big in my fathers left lung and because he does not live in my country he had no health insurance. I went the most expensive way possible, he had surgery to do an immediate biopsy and everything cost me 400$ total keep in mind he has ZERO insurance...
thank god after this everything was fine BUT on the xray the tumor did not show BUT on the CT scan it did...the biopsy came back as benign BUT the surgeon felt that we needed to make sure with another biopsy, only this time deeper, and this time it would cost me a whole whopping 50$ (just the biopsy) the surgeon did it for free because he felt it was the right thing to do...
2 surgeries and 2 biopsies total: 450$
the difference between US healthcare and our 3rd world healthcare is that our healthcare is actually done by human beings...I do not think you can find one doctor in our whole country who could morally justify billing you 5000$ for a room when you are sick and in need of treatment
