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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
[INDENT]The bargaining tool is the quantity of persons insured and the insurance company's management of the payment of medical benefits for those customers.
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no, it's not.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
There is no "negotiating", at least in the sense that the word has always been defined.
The prices are fake. They are only there for Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance.
Once the hospital understands that you have none of those...then they will give you the "real" price.
That is exactly what happened to me.
And it is exactly what will never happen again once ObamaCare/Handout To The Insurance Companies is complete.
The more I think about it the more the whole "health care" (which has nothing to do with actual "health care) bill is one of the biggest moves by any industry in history. The insurance companies went from being something that wasn't really needed except for catastrophic care just a couple of decades ago, into being something that EVERYBODY must have and the costs are now through the roof and rising.  |
again, my experience is entirely different, and as the post i made shows, people that are not near the federal poverty level and are uninsured do not get a break on price.
we have no bargaining tool. that's my point. if i don't pay the price, the hospital sells my account to a bill collector and my credit gets wiped out and i still have the bill.