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Originally Posted by crockett
The Hospital doesn't really lose much if anything. It never really cost that $240k. Anything they claim to of lost gets written up as a tax deduction hence the reason hospitals always claim to be losing money. Hospitals are a business and most are not "non-profit" yet in most places they stay in business year after year..
Claiming the loss on the extremely padded bill is all part of the game.
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Crockett and I super duper agree here.
Anything called reform should have addressed this.
If hospitals charged a normal markup, someone like your friend would have been able to just tighten his belt and sell a few toys to pay the bill for surgery, not be deterred and destroyed by the cost.