It could be high, but hospitals usually heavily work with the uninsured to bring down hospital bills. They bring down the initial bill, they do payment plans etc. the surgery itself, when paying out of pocket wouldn’t have been more than $10k. I had a bigger surgery than Dayton recently (and prices are higher now than when Dayton had the surgery) and I paid $3k out of pocket for an out of network surgeon, then the insurance covered $7k. Highly unlikely the surgery and hospital bills were $150k but I could be wrong since I obviously have no details on what we’re done! Healthcare in the US is stupid expensive, but I would be shocked if they paid that much (and if they did, they certainly didn’t put effort into negotiating their bills, and they got ripped off by their surgeon).

These people are idiots. Why don’t they just get health insurance for their kids? Health insurance for kids under 26 is expensive but WAY less than being hit with ER bills and surgery bills completely out of pocket. Smh I’ve never seen a family be so dumb this way (especially with this many kids and a high likelihood of several emergency medical situations). The browns apparently never considered what would happen if their kids were in a true emergency, life-threatening situation where they needed immediate life-saving care, and 6 month-1 year of intensive after care. They would lose every asset they own.