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The logic is that anyone who does pay makes them a ton of money.
by snarf21 8y ago
The logic is that anyone who does pay makes them a ton of money.
- zaphirplane 8y agoYet hospitals are not killing (no pun intended) it like apple or Microsoft. The massive margins are getting eaten somehow. Expensive equipment, salaries, commissions, patients telling them to shove the bill. I don’t know something is missing
- snarf21 8y agoThere is another dirty side to our healthcare. They generally lose money on the uninsured and in some cases Medicare/Medicaid. Essentially we pay for that coverage with our dollars.
- mst 8y agoThe "emergency rooms must treat" law (I forget the name or how long ago it was, sorry) resulted in state governments stopping funding public hospitals - which made this state of affairs basically inevitable.
- dugluak 8y agoTransparency is missing