The critical care costs at hospitals is so expensive that it is bankrupting many families and causing so much stress that the survivors are having heart attacks. So, even if they are able to save the person, the family is bankrupt or the individual ends up on state aid. It is a travesty to see our health care system so messed up and all the plans to fix it are simply unworkable. Expecting the government to foot the bill, will only raise taxes and cause prices to rise in America's Health Care System.
One night in the hospital in intensive care can cause someone's medical bills to sky-rocket. Indeed any non-essential treatments within the intensive care setting, can add thousands of dollars an hour to one's bill. Often, hospitals in the past have given treatment for non-related or non-life threatening issues to patients in ICU. From an ethical standpoint this is quite alarming. If someone is literally on their death bed, in a comatose state, where life and death are on a razor's edge, hospitals have given treatments such as removing the appendix, kidney stones or other unnecessary treatments.
The ICU costs are already outrageous and absolutely out of control, but adding non-essential treatments or unnecessary operations or excessive tests to boost the billing or get more money from the government is highly unethical, yet it goes on to this day. Some say, well insurance will pay for it or the government will pay for it. But, if you are a taxpayer you know that you are paying for it and if you are also a consumer you know why your medical insurance costs are so darn high. The health care system is broken, this is only one of the abuses we see.
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