According to https://nchstats.com/average-cost-of-hospital-stays-in-us/#google_vignette the average is $3.025 per night. 4 months = 120 days = $363,000 = €313.307,21
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In the U.S. with insurance you would have easily hit the deductible and out-of-pocket costs though that does mean you would have been billed a few thousand dollars easily (on top of the regular monthly insurance costs). Everyone has slightly different health insurance plans so the actual amount would be hard to predict for a hypothetical question.
One thing you got me thinking, I'm not too sure how often U.S. insurers would actually cover someone to literally stay 4 months in a hospital, maybe in rare extreme cases? Insurance companies typically only approve x amount of days/weeks in hospitals or rehabilitation facilities so once you use up those approved days the hospital has to figure out how to get you out or start billing you directly at a few thousand per day.
Depends.
My dad went in the hospital for like probably 3 months, and afiak, their small bussiness is still running. They have insurance.
For everyone else who don't have insurance and don't have any assets, just refuse to pay the bills, like what are they gonna do? Confiscate your organs? (Inb4 they pass the "USA Repossess Organs Act")
Don't give them ideas, they're already trying to control women and negate body autonomy.
I'm not from the US, but I've heard someone from there explain the system.
When you go to hospital, and get a bill of $250.000 your insurance company will cover let say $50.000. You will get a bill for $1.200 and the rest will be declared by the hospital to their insurance company as damages.
It's super weird, I still don't get it but apparently this is how it works in most cases, or as I'm told.
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If you don't have the money on hand to pay what it would have cost out of pocket, then you're better off dying.
If you don't have the money at all, you're probably in the clear.