{"id":11239,"date":"2020-04-08T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2020-04-08T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:59:38","slug":"people-everywhere-are-deathly-afraid-of-taking-the-coronavirus-test-and-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=11239","title":{"rendered":"People everywhere are deathly afraid of taking the coronavirus test…and for good reason."},"content":{"rendered":"

This Is Why People All Over America Are Scared To Death Of Being Tested For The Coronavirus\u2026<\/h1>\n

by Michael Snyder
\nThe Economic Collapse<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>How would you feel if you received a bill for more than $34,000 after being tested and treated for the coronavirus?\u00a0 This pandemic is showing the entire world that the U.S. healthcare system is deeply, deeply broken, and there is no way that we can continue to go on like this.\u00a0 If coronavirus testing is quick, inexpensive and widely available all over the rest of the globe, why can\u2019t that be the case here too?\u00a0 Democrats and Republicans have been fighting about fixing our healthcare system all the way back to the 1990s and they haven\u2019t gotten the job done.\u00a0 Now we have a system that is a complete and utter embarrassment, and it is about to be overwhelmed by the greatest public health crisis that any of us have ever seen.<\/p>\n

Even under normal circumstances, most Americans are deathly afraid to go to the hospital because of what it will cost.<\/p>\n

I have written about this numerous times before, but not even I would have imagined that getting tested and treated for coronavirus\u00a0would cost more than $34,000<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

A woman in the United States says she was billed $34,927.43 after being tested and treated for the coronavirus, Time magazine reports.<\/p>\n

When Danni Askini first came down with the symptoms of the virus \u2014 shortness of breath, a fever, a cough and migraines \u2014 she was told by a doctor to go to the emergency room. There, she was told she had pneumonia and could go home. She visited the emergency room two more times as her symptoms persisted and worsened before she was finally tested for the coronavirus. Three days later her results showed she had COVID-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How in the world is it possible for a bill to get that high?<\/p>\n

As Danni pointed out, she now owes the hospital more than she paid for both of her college degrees.<\/p>\n

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So this story is about my experience with COVID and my final hospital bill: $34,927.23 – an amount that I will never be able to repay and more than I paid to get both my Bachelors and Masters degree. @realDonaldTrump<\/a> @ewarren<\/a> @AyannaPressley<\/a> please help! https:\/\/t.co\/pJApXMPzcW<\/a><\/p>\n

— DNA (@danniaskini) March 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n