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Originally Posted by onwebcam
I've told this story here before. My son had a motorcycle accident last year. He thought he had insurance so that's what he told them and what they went with. Within a week the billing started arriving to the tune of $30k+. And then they figured out his insurance was cancelled. Like magic his billing was reduced to around $5-6k. The hospital themselves called it the "cash price" This isn't the only instance I'm fully aware of. Just one instance. The hospital doesn't actually lose money unless that person doesn't pay. And if that person doesn't they come after them debt collection wise. Hence the many health care bankruptcies. (And many of those people actually had insurance)
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i can imagine that things like that happen in USA every day and they even happen in europe (maybe not that much but they happen too) the reason for that is because of you so called "free market".
even when i love free markets there is a natural red line what should not be in private hands.
this what happend to you happens because the hospitals PAY BACK to the insurance companies. insurance companies even can recommend hospitals or health service or
they can EXCLUDE hospitals or health services.
an now you can guess WHY they recommend them or exclude them - just because they get cash back.
same thing with prescriptions - the biggest cars are financed from the pharma industry because doctors prescribe the most expensive medicine even when there is a much cheaper alternative.
that goes even further - the same pharma companies pay back on insurances who send their patients to a hospital what is just working with such overpriced medicine.
THIS is where you can rid of all your healthcare cost problems if you stop this ugly corruption what have to be paid from the weakest and poorest people in the system - the ones who are sick!
THIS is not a free market - this is LEGALIZATION OF THE MAFIA !!!!