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Re:A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills by refurb on Sunday September 30, 2018 @06:30PM (#18108787)
The reason doctors are in-network is the because they agreed to a discounted rate.

If you forced insurance companies to accept all-comers, you’ve just drastically increased the cost of ER care.

My preference would be for the hospitals to hold the bag.

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Re:A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills by subhobroto on Sunday September 30, 2018 @06:40PM (#18108839)
> My preference would be for the hospitals to hold the bag.

Fair enough.

How about everyone needing to pay the same rate regardless of whether they are insured or not: https://www.quora.com/Would-a-completely-free-market-healthc...

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Re:A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills by MBCook on Sunday September 30, 2018 @07:02PM (#18108945)
A hospital holding the bag we could quickly go out of business. You would HAVE to implement some sort of backstop against that at the same time.
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Re:A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills by refurb on Sunday September 30, 2018 @07:17PM (#18109012)
The hospitals are the ones giving privileged to these out of network physicians who work in their hospitals.

They could hire them with the agreement that they accept the insurer’s in-network rate.

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Re:A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills by MBCook on Sunday September 30, 2018 @08:09PM (#18109189)
Or end up with almost no staff until it’s all sorted out.
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Re:A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills by refurb on Sunday September 30, 2018 @09:32PM (#18109414)
I assume it wouldnt be “no staff” considering it’s a rare occurrence when a physician is out of network.

And i’m not talking about situations where the entire hospital is out of network. It’s when the patient does their homework and the doctor and facility are in network and then some random doc shows up who is out of network and the patient gets screwed.

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