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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by vkou on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:13PM (#18727416)
So, the problem is that medical billing can be made too complicated for the free market to work - not the flat ~30% tax break?
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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by bluGill on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:49PM (#18727777)
NO, the problem is medical billing was allowed to become too complicated, and it is very hard to unwind that situation.

I'll contend (though of course there is no way to prove this) that if we hadn't had the advantage to company provided insurance the complex billing wouldn't have developed in the first place.

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