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Kingsley Raspe
Personal blog · kingsley.sh/posts · on HN as kingsloihealtheconomics
Kingsley Raspe's personal blog at kingsley.sh covers health and economics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The staggering cost of surviving heart disease in the USA”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers the cost of a two-week pediatric/infant ICU stay, including a first bill of $2.5M. The comment only cites the post for that figure and says nothing about the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
All about Kingsley Raspe, Full Stack Developer/DevOps Engineer, based in Gary, Indiana, USA
Most-linked posts?
- The staggering cost of surviving heart disease in the USA2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-03-17
What Hacker News says?
I'd love to look up uninsured prices and compare them 1-1 to what I was charged for my little girl's 2 week ICU stay https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-bab...
Comment linking /posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease
on “Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure”Submitted The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU as a story · 151 points
HN discussionMy little girl was born with really rare heart disease and a genetic condition, a boy a few streets behind us developed a really rare cancer. - https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-... - https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/us/ben-watkins-masterchef/ind... This comes a year or so after a ArcelorMittal spilled ammonia and cyanide into Lake Michigan, and didn't sound the alarm for a few days. My wife…
Comment linking /posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-heart-disease-in-the-usa
on “Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office”Submitted My letter to Medicaid, appealing my child's Medicaid denial as a story · 129 points
HN discussionFirst Bill was $2.5M and the article is here https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...
Comment linking /posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-heart-disease-in-the-usa
on “The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU”Submitted The staggering cost of surviving heart disease in the USA as a story · 23 points
HN discussionedit: I hadn't really woken up when I first read the article, so I read it again after my morning coffee. I can't express how nice it was to read it, it sums up my experience perfectly. I'm teary eye'd writing this, I had just finished reading it, and then look behind me and see mom and baby on the sofa passed out next to each other, we've literally only been home about 15 hours, and I'm so happy seeing them togethe…
Comment linking /posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-heart-disease-in-the-usa
on “At Home with Down Syndrome (2008)”It was rougher/tougher than I ever thought it would be, not for me/my family, but the pain and suffering my little girl endured - to then receive a bill at the end of the day, is just insulting, imo. I'm actually British, I moved to the US in 2016. Me/my family have used our fair share of the NHS - my mom suddenly died when I was 12, my dad is in remission from prostate cancer after treatment, I've had kidney stone…
Comment linking /posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-heart-disease-in-the-usa
on “Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January”Based on how much my little girl’s ICU admission cost, https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-bab... there is no way (in my mind) that their ICU admission will be free.
Comment linking /posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease
on “Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January”I posted something along the same lines last week about my own struggles with the cost of healthcare in the US. https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26497816 In my lil girl’s 147 ICU stay, $333,000+ of the $2.5m bill was IV medication. I wish they broke it down by medications because I would be really interested in seeing what makes up the $333k. She’s…
Comment linking /posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-heart-disease-in-the-usa
on “The cost of a standard unit of insulin”Great idea! I'm working on something similar, digitising my daughter's 213 pages of medical bills by building an app specifically for digitising printed medical bills. https://kingsley.sh/posts/2022/digitising-213-pages-of-medic... Everyone kept saying "make sure to check your statements", but when the statements came, they're 9pt font, 50-70 line items per page. 1 page, yes, 10, maybe, 213 is impossible. In the mid…
Comment linking /posts/2022/digitising-213-pages-of-medical-bills
on “Open Source Hospital Price Transparency”