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Man Receives Huge Medical Bill After Donating His Kidney (ft. Walter Hong)

#kidney#blood#donate#liver#kidneys
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0:00 [Music] anybody ever uh thought of uh or needed to be in a situation where you'd be like let me donate this organ to this person in order to save their lives hell no real quick well how many organs can you actually donate what does she look like being in a democracy do you guys have anyone that important in your lives right now where you feel like i would give somebody something away because i get it like maybe taika or like if you have a kid right i mean other than family you mean a non-blood related non-blood like i get it relationship maybe a wife or whatever but like i don't know it's tough yeah like if ryan hit me up he's like dude i need your kidney i would seriously consider it but i don't know if it's an automatic and i'm like the doctor said it can only be anthony's kidney yeah yeah if it's a situation like that i think yeah that that's easier to be like okay that's

0:50 cool like you feel compelled to yeah you're called to it but if you're like i want your kidney walter i think it depends how i ask too like i i i i qualify for 20 different kidneys but i want yours and it's like a title tone that i shouldn't get the kidney yeah i'm like sorry or if you propose it to the whole room and you're like i need any one of your guys kidneys everyone's just going to sit there and wait for someone else to raise and is someone dying though is it like either everybody's alive you just need to switch organs have mild discomfort just for fun i get tummy aches sometimes but it eats too fast i either ask you hey i'm gonna die anthony wear a match i need your kidney or whatever right i think that's different than um i don't really need your kidney i could also have this machine that i walk around with you know is it a drama does the machine look like anthony

1:40 because it's a convenient anthony can you buy me this machine or give me a kidney yeah with kendra's money yeah would you rather buy this machine or would you give me a kidney irony actually in this situation is this man receives a huge medical bill after donating his own kidneys in the states is it the u.s it's in the u.s ████ they couldn't cover it what the other yes caveat for ████ donating kidneys he didn't get full coverage i thought the donation stuff was everyone else takes care of it yeah don't think it's a free pass you gotta donate your money too like so hey so if i die and they take the organs out of my body because my parents have to pay for it it goes to my family the bill goes to my family because you get a service fee that's that's not supposed to be okay let me tell you about services twenty

2:30 percent cause i went to the super bowl i don't know if you guys know this ruble wait so how does this work and what part did he had to give away so it was his kidney uh this guy's name is elliott malin was contacted by the mother of his cousin 28 year old scott klein so his aunt and a [Laughter] in order to find a donor match as he was in end-stage renal failure uh malin and klein consider themselves cousins although their blood relationship is more distant than that she contacted as many people as possible like our scenario earlier uh in in the hope of finding a donor to help her son and meline kindly agreed wait so they're they're also distant relatives distant cousins yeah so it might as well be a stranger yeah for real blood wise i think klein wasn't yet on dialysis but

3:20 he was going to need the operation the subject line of the email stated scott needs a kidney it continued thank you for considering it but please don't feel it's a spam pressure to do it sorry i have to share this bird in but the best potential match is family so maybe there is i'm gonna report that as spam dude and be like i never saw it i'm a word what email spam and i'm a block ████ email so malin who lives in nevada us didn't need to think too hard about it and decided that he'd help klein that's what you get for being a good person dude you get hit with the bill nevadans dude they never make the right decisions it's not clear what happened to clients kidneys but he needed help and needed it badly four months after mellon signed up

4:10 it became clear he was a match the amount of hoops you have to jump through to do this is pretty extraordinary the hospital was amazing on trying to help everything as easy as possible and in july last year the surgery was performed at baylor scott and white all saints medical center in fort worth texas now whilst he realized that the operation of subsequent recovery would be tough he didn't expect to receive any kind of bill for his generosity what is it ████ like 100 g's or some ████ it wasn't a living donors who give their organs to others are not supposed to be billed for any medical expenses as the recipient's insurance covers it if they're not insured the tab is usually picked up by medicare however due to a billing mistake mallon received the bill for a staggering thirteen thousand sixty four dollars from north star a company that provides anesthesia including baylor scott and white all saints what's more is they threatened that the bill might go to collections if unpaid

5:01 oh my who would have thought giving your kidney would cost an arm and a leg who has the lamest jokes in here just cross me man somehow anthony gets the ████ out of the stick like that's an attack on him i am not buying your liver machine or whatever the ████ you want oh yeah you just gotta die dude you just burned your bridge robo the guy that walks around by the time you need the kidney machine they'll make it so small that you could put it in your sex robot so you always could take your sexual at least oh hey why do you have that thing you're perv no this helps me survive yeah

5:51 that's my dialysis my liver for me that's true you know what's going on ████ sketchy when you donate blood right it's free i love this when you shoot up heroin it's free yeah that's free right here nurse lady it's ice in my veins this is different oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay where do you do the three we donate blood right it's it's free and you could donate ████ i don't know how many liters right for your your lifetime 35 35 okay 35. but when you need blood in this in the operation you still got to pay for it there's no ████ way it's like a thrift store bro you get to drop off ████ at goodwill but you still got to buy it yeah they should give you credit that if you need an operation you should be able to get pints of blood you know what that would actually be a good idea because it would it would actually make people donate more blood don't you get paid for

6:41 donating blood no you get a sticker and a ████ high school you you get so i donated some blood uh like last year and then after they donate blood they they send your email and they tell you like hey you actually helped this person during that it's cool and it low-key got me kind of like they send you a picture no they don't send you a picture but they they tell you like you helped that your blood actually went to someone who had something like this or whatever that's dope and it actually kind of got me like choked up a little bit bro i was like yeah what if and i never donate blood again but what if that person i've been meaning to go back to i got emails from the company and they're like we're a blood shortage i'm like i already did my part that's all right i want a ████ shout out video of the guy getting the blood going thanks bro oh it feels so good but what if that guy dies later on like blood infection i'm like i gotta ████ the blood so can you take the blood back if

7:31 they end up being a criminal yes you can i think i should be like you helped this guy survive and then now he went to rob five liquor stores you gotta go get it yourself you slit this don't wanna get a bullet give it back to me ████ you gotta drink it ████ you your blood was used for a drug offender who later got his throat sliced by parker yeah pretty complex but he's getting his blood back so double jeopardy it's all good damn that's would you guys ask like if someone if if someone was like yo i need a new ████ liver or whatever right my first question to them would be like what did you do yeah because if it's like if it's like oh i got kiss uh because of like because genetics and it's like all right i'll help you out right but if it's like i drank too much beer it's like ████ you die ████ yeah for real that's on you

8:22 and i i wish we knew why this guy's coors should give him a free flight yeah tell coors yeah they should take the tab on them so the first one see because i'm nicer than joe the first time i i'll give a sliver of liver that's how that's how it works liver donations that's how it works because it grows yeah they take a sliver of it yeah but if they came back and was it's the same problem then it's like yo no you squandered my sliver my good liver and yeah so now you can't even get it back though because i ruined it no but but but my no would be very like emphatic and emotionally powerful for me and cathartic like very like stern and very like wow [Laughter] to make them feel like oh man shouldn't have asked him you showed him yeah you

9:12 know i like that though but because you have hope where you're like maybe they'll change their way maybe yeah maybe they learn their lesson they're like thank you and then you guys can go grab beers afterwards right yes but then probably not beers like kool-aid or something yeah but if they you know regress and then they get like you know they have a heavy drinking problem again yo man hey remember like last time can you hook me up uh knob like last time you came through with the liver dude it came through did that thing for me it was like yo we got another we gonna do it all over again wasn't that such a good time remember we were in the hospital for three days when your thing regenerated and it was like totally fine and remember we're on the operating table and we kind of reached out and like high five each other that i feel so

10:02 bonded with you well let's do it all again i would say that i'm very stingy with my body parts but i i but if a friend's like yo man like i need help and i'll be like all right let me i'll just mortgage my house for you i mean i'll i'll refile whatever i'll i'll give you all the ████ money in my bank account yeah but it's like hey joe i need help man i know you do [Laughter] but if it's like hey i need a hand and i'm like no you don't i just needed to move this couch it's like nah nah you don't need no ████ i'm just kidding it's like it's like i'm not gonna give him ████ like oh i need can i get like one of those eyeballs you have two and i'm like nah nah bro even if it's my kid i'm like man ████ you dude it i could make another one like why take your future brother's eyes don't take mine

10:52 so joe has a baby to give that contact i ████ clone this fool and then just be like 3d over the same dna yeah easy just to end with some actual news just so it's a slightly happier ending this was all actual news well otherwise we could have just left it and said that north star uh just claimed collections but there was obviously dispute uh after initially dismissing the bills following the surgery they actually became more threatening and even included references to delinquent payments and further collection however they eventually came around the table and the bill was sorted their cfo kate said said an email to milan on behalf of north star i apologize for causing any confusion or concern regarding this matter and assure you that it has been resolved so he's all good now give him a kidney then give him a kidney give him another thing for pain and suffering from the harassment yeah uh yeah it says it says they gave him a joke elections and ████ oh yeah i don't

11:42 know how that ████ works i had a ████ refi my house for these ████ you

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