andrew and i were talking about some financial aspects of my upcoming discharge. at some point, i will be presented with a bill. i really am not certain what it will look like. curt told me that he saw a running total sometime during the first week in the neighborhood of 40 million won ($40000), which could mean a current total of double that or more – but, caveat: that number is meaningless, because its pre-insurance. insuance will be paying different aspects of the bill at different rates, ranging from 95 percent for surgery to zero percent for hospital food and bed space. so the final bill remains a mystery.
but andrew had a good point, too: theres only so much they can do to collect. jokingly, he imitated a supercilious hospital administrator: "pay your bill right now. . . or we will put the cancer back!"
this made me laugh.