Your archived link does not cover the whole article.
An official at the hospital in Yinchuan in Ningxia Hui autonomous region, northwestern China, said the fee was for two days’ use of a chair by the patient who was sitting on it while receiving an infusion.
$0.70 is a heck a lot cheaper than the consultation fees you get charged in a government subsidized medical institution in Singapore.
https://polyclinic.singhealth.com.sg/patient-care/charges-payment
Yeah, in the US they'd probably charge you $500, minimum.
How very american of them.
Naw, look at the actual cost of the fee they are complaining about and the total cost of the bill. If they want to get on America's level, they need to get those numbers up. That's rookie shit.
They learn from the best.
I use this very phrase as a response to poor customer service/poor behavior in general on a far too regular basis.
Oh my God to be in a situation where a $.70 charge at the hospital feels egregious I fucking wish. I have insurance and I had to pay a doctor hundreds for them to tell me the tendinitis in my wrist was caused by the two cigarettes I smoked at a party a month and a half ago. I hate it here y'all
You're supposed to use a lighter
But the US prides itself on being the poster child of capitalist dystopias, China likes to pretend it's a socialist country.
Ibn the US that would instead be 500$.
I spent about $3,000 for two different GI doctors to tell me they didn’t know what my issues were. One visit to a dietician and she said I should eat more food. 🤦🏻♂️
I would have told you that for $1500.
Amateurs! They should've charged $4000 and handed you some terrible "medical food" on the way out.
Sign you up for a goy slop subscription.
You know capitalist pigs love recurring revenue!!! Plus feeding you poison makes you sick! Win win
Please, Tankies, keep telling me how China is a communist country.
Look, if Americans could get this outraged over an 70 extra cents on a medical bill, we'd be a lot better off.
But in America, they'd bill us an extra $2,000 for the same, and we'd just add it to our debts and carry on without even burning down an insurance company like we should be doing.
Would you argue that medical bills would exist at all in a communist country? Because that was my point.
Agreed. I wonder how many of them have actually been to China. I have, and it's almost comically un-communist. Most western democracies have far more robust social supports, and I'd even say it's easier to have a worker-owned business in the west than in China.
I don’t like this source:
Since the change of ownership in 2016, concerns have been raised about the paper's editorial independence and self-censorship. Critics including The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Atlantic have alleged that the paper is on a mission to promote China's soft power abroad.[9][10]
I don't like the source either, and usually I never link to SCMP or other Chinese propaganda media. In that case, however, I made an excemption (maybe it wasn't a good idea, just let me know that) as the article doesn't promote China's official agenda. The article is highly critical of the Chinese health system, even citing ordinary citizens' posts, and it comes from a paper like SCMP.
in this case I would have mentioned that in the post. Just so people are informed.
That's right. Done.
cheers! Thank you for the polite conversation on Lemmy. Which is unfortunately rare in politics/news communities :)
You are welcome 🤠
So this is China's take on Facility fees. They just actually have the balls to list what the charge actually entailed.
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