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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:35AM (#20969109)
Not much. Your premium is going towards paying for the $1M NICU cases where it takes extreme interventions and the $1M/month hemophilia patients. Even a population of a small state like Iowa can have problems distributing costs like that.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2017/05/...

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by IggleSniggle on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:42PM (#20972846)
I think distributing the costs is entirely reasonable; warranted, even. That is, after all, why insurance works at all. Distributing the cost by inflating receipts is, no matter how altruistic or “necessary” you may think it to be, a fraud.
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