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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by Arrath on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:36PM (#27715105)
There is a pretty large continuum of potential value between the 'cheap' care that people want, and the ruinous bills that get charged.
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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by lotsofpulp on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:45PM (#27715220)
Ruinous bills are frequently used to cover the costs of routine procedures. It’s another situation where 10% of the healthcare consumes 90% of the resources. It’s the person who needs 6 months in the hospital, the 2 month premature baby in NICU, the hemophiliac that needs $1M medication that balloon all the costs.

And no one can really afford that, but instead of spreading the costs around to all taxpayers, we were spreading it around by inflating everything else. ACA helps with this, but today’s announcement about out of network care will help more too.

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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by Goronmon on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:44PM (#27715210)
There is a pretty large continuum of potential value between the 'cheap' care that people want, and the ruinous bills that get charged.

That can't be true, everyone knows that people are only greedy and stupid, and it's really the citizens' fault for the prices of the current healthcare setup. The industry itself is all made up of kind-hearted super heroes who would never think of manipulating prices to syphon more money from patients.

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