Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:39PM (#22387682)

Holy crap. I am in the process of "fighting" with insurance over meds we paid out of pocket even though they were supposed to cover it.. long story. We thought we hit a wall and we contacted one of the enforcement agencies. All of a sudden, we get an individual refund form and a place to mail it to. The amount was not astronomical ($1.5k), but not something I can just ignore.

And that happens all over the country. Not everyone has my time to call, write and complain. Those are the moments I am ready to change the system. It is not really working for me. It is merely acceptable to a few.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by TuringNYC on Friday February 21, 2020 @07:45PM (#22388560)

My friends hired a consultant to reconcile pregnancy related bills coming from all angles from a half dozen entities. The consultant corrected things from over $17,000 to “only” four figures of copays and balance billing.

That is nuts. The fact that a consultant with expertise in this “skill” exists and is required is also a sign of a supremely broken system.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by codegeek on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:55PM (#22387812)

yep. Dont even get me started on how many times I had to fight with the insurance/billing/admin departments to even understand why I received a bill and for what. They must have a team of smart cryptographers to generate those crazy bills and invoices /s

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by jrs235 on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:28PM (#22388071)

And after you think you have it all figured and and properly paid, a new bill appears out of the blue 6 months after your visit.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by codegeek on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:34PM (#22388112)

Bingo.

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