Re:Build Your Own ‘Medicare for All’ Plan. Beware: There Are...
by citilife on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:02PM
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_Without insurance_ you can see a doctor in the U.S. for relatively cheap. I'm talking, $100 for a clinic visit. I've done it plenty of times for less.
The healthcare in the U.S. seems nuts because you are _billed_ for hundreds of dollars, but that's because they have to subsidize medicare patients AND insurance companies have negotiated rates based on percentages. So, they may only pay 40% of what is billed, but you are shown much more.
It's a scam everyone is involved in, which is why we need open pricing and open "how much insurance actually paid".
The healthcare in the U.S. seems nuts because you are _billed_ for hundreds of dollars, but that's because they have to subsidize medicare patients AND insurance companies have negotiated rates based on percentages. So, they may only pay 40% of what is billed, but you are shown much more.
It's a scam everyone is involved in, which is why we need open pricing and open "how much insurance actually paid".