Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
by epistasis on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:42PM
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What lobbyists are opposed to universal healthcare?
It seems to instead be merely a wedge issue in culture war. Republicans firmly oppose it, Democratic politicians fight for it, and apparently voters don't care enough to advocate for what they say they want in polls.
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
by no_wizard on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:50PM
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Off the top of my head:
- The Partnership for America's Health Care Future
- American Hospital Association
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Various lobbying organizations related to private insurance and adjacent systems, like pharmacy benefit management organizations
Politico has a great article about the Medicare For All fight[0]
The opposition spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting it.
[0]: https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/medicare-for...
This ignores the outsized influence of lobbyists, especially post Citizens United.
The majority (depending on which polls you cite, seems to range anywhere from 57% to over 70%) favor a universal healthcare solution for all citizens. Yet like many other majority opinions, this doesn't translate into legislative action in that direction, in large part thanks to lobbyists and dysfunctional partisanship. None the less policy is not reflecting the majority.