“What does all the bill mean in the mail?”

and Australian Tiktoker He was shocked to hear that bills from America hospital The experiment was the beginning only after the publication of a video was originally published, saying it was “not bad” as it was expected.

In the original tiktoker video On Monday, the man explained that he had broke his wrist recently. After hearing about the US health care system and expensive costs, Tiktoker said he prepared for the worst.

“This is not as bad as I expected. It is not great, but it is not terrible,” he said. “I thought I would be in the hole for thousands of dollars after my wrist fracture … I spent $ 250 to visit urgent care and his primary X -rays.”

Tiktoker went on to say that he was bills for another $ 350 after a managing specialist, which means that he paid about $ 600. Although he made it clear that in Australia, there may be something like this for free or the cost of “perhaps $ 40”, he expressed that this experience is “not terrible.”

However, with a video of Tiktoker online traction, dozens of American users took his comments section to warn that another bill was likely to go to its way.

One user laughed: “I am very sorry for the shock you will receive in the mail.” “I knew that there was an immediate understanding,” a user commented.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I (going to) hold your hand when I say this … this is not the full cost, the bill is coming,” another user wrote.

The comments of the video have reached more than 690,000 views since then. He wrote in a comment: “What does all the bill mean in the mail?”

Although Tiktoker did not receive the full bill, he felt dismay when he learned that his initial estimates of paying “thousands of dollars” for his treatment were probably accurate based on comments from users.

“So you are telling me, that in America, you can be exposed to a car, go to the hospital, and you have insurance, but you get a $ 50,000 bill, and you will actually have to pay this bill with a value of $ 50,000?” The man said in the follow -up video Wednesday. “This is crazy. Why do you not master riots often?”

While the cost of health care in the United States may be partially attributed to the aging of the population, developments in technology and inflation, health care also remains more expensive in the United States compared to its peers because it largely sees healthcare coverage as voluntary, according to a report in May 2024. KFF.

Compared to similar countries, the United States does not do much negotiation to reduce the price of medicines. The country also does not have a major coordination to cover health care, as coverage patterns vary between public and private.

It was originally published on Latin era