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Re:Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure by vjvjvjvjghv on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:56PM (#46447106)
“ But there is also the fact that they charge you or your insurance company to smooth out other costs like $2,000,000.00 cancer treatment or for people who show up to the hospital, don’t have insurance, and the hospital has to treat them”

I bet whatever cost these patients cause, the hospital will inflate this by an order of magnitude. It’s the same with charity care. Hey, my sticker price for an aspirin is $1000. I’ll give away 10 aspirin and I can get credit for $10000 charity.

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Re:Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure by StanislavPetrov on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @09:29PM (#46450696)
A lot of that is tied into billing in general, even without the people who can't afford to pay for their care. When they send out an invoice for $50,000 for services rendered, even if the insurance company only ends up paying them a fraction of that, when it comes to accounting and taxes you can be sure they are using that $50,000 number for deductions and such when it benefits them.
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