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It's more complicated than that. Insurance companies negotiate rates with providers. If you just show-up at some provider and pay out-of-pocket, with no insur
by gricardo99 10y ago
It's more complicated than that. Insurance companies negotiate rates with providers. If you just show-up at some provider and pay out-of-pocket, with no insurance, the rate you pay can be vastly different (i.e. higher) than the rate they would charge a large insurance company.
- kazinator 10y agoI don't have the sense that this is much of a problem here in Canada, though I haven't researched it. It's ironic that you have a Security Exchange Commission down there which will put you in jail for trading on an insider stock tip, yet they don't crack the fuck down on this sort of blatant anti-trust between health and insurance. The US is such a cop against corruption abroad. I worked for a US firm for some years and had to regularly go through anti-corruption training. Like, clean up your local messes first that affect the lives of millions of Americans at home, before worrying that someone working abroad is wining and dining some foreign official to get a deal and how that affects their democracy over there.