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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by dclowd9901 on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:20PM (#16833119)
So, if I understand you correctly, every time someone visits a health care provider under insurance, they have to perform the billing like they're buying a house or car?

No fucking wonder health care costs a goddamn fortune.

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by _jal on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:05AM (#16837356)
No, that's wrong. It is far worse than that.

There's an entire industry of entities involved with medical pricing. One of the players in one of the larger niches, a Pharmacy Benefits Manager[1], recently bought an insurer[2]. Manipulating, negotiating and offering various financial and marketing products (it gets really blurry) around medical pricing is huge business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/business/dealbook/cvs-is-...

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