Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
by StudentStuff on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:43AM
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This type of billing practice causes a mess of winners and losers, essentially unless your insurer has good pricing with wherever you end up getting treatment (often not a choice you get to make in an emergency), you can end up holding the bag for the cash price, usually half of the $10k number you mention. Quite ridiculous when other insurers are paying less than half that price, smells of a scam.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
by conductr on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:22AM
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My conspiracy theory is it was designed this way over time so that people “needed” insurance (before it was required).
Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
by SlowRobotAhead on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:42AM
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Not too much of a conspiracy theory.
What’s ironic (?) is that by mismanaging a scheme to get everyone on private insurance they’re really working towards socialized insurance. Which good or bad, there is no going away from once you have it.