Timeline for Does a COVID-19 test in USA cost consumers more than $US3000?
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| Mar 9, 2020 at 10:46 | comment | added | Mast | The cost is rarely in the tests itself, but in the use of other equipment and staff wages. Even in the Netherlands, a short non-emergency drive by (not in) an ambulance + check-up on location can cost you hundreds of euros. | |
| S Mar 9, 2020 at 8:23 | history | suggested | Ender | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Proper grammar and fixed translation.
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| Mar 9, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/1236894511399395328 | ||
| Mar 9, 2020 at 1:50 | comment | added | PatrickT | Came back from China to California with flu-like symptoms (early February), went to hospital, told them, was put in isolation room, got a bunch of tests done, none of them COVID-19, when they were satisfied it was the flu was kicked out unceremoniously, the whole experience cost upwards of 3,000 and did not include a test. So quote is about right. | |
| Mar 8, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan | I don't know 🤪 about you, but I tend to 🤣 take the words of people 👪 who 😜 overuse emoji with a grain of 🧂. | |
| Mar 8, 2020 at 9:55 | vote | accept | Zucch | ||
| Mar 7, 2020 at 20:41 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 53 | |
| Mar 7, 2020 at 12:39 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Mar 7, 2020 at 2:36 | comment | added | Henry | The Economist is reporting "Test kits made available by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) were faulty; restrictions were limiting tests in other settings. By March 1st, when South Korea had run 100,000 tests for the virus, America - which saw its first case on January 23rd - had run fewer than 500." | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 21:48 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | It appears that it was bureaucratic problems (also here) rather than cost that led to inadequate testing. | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 19:09 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 6, 2020 at 17:37 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | Related: politics.stackexchange.com/questions/50624/… (tl;dr: CDC covers testing but those may not be the only medical bills incurred...after that, it gets complicated, because institutions have some discretion on whether they bother to bill uninsured folks, for reasons of both collection efforts and PR). | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 12:24 | answer | added | JRE | timeline score: 115 | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 12:11 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Simplify title. Copy-edit - mainly to simplify.
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| Mar 6, 2020 at 11:05 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 6, 2020 at 11:03 | history | asked | Zucch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |