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While I have no sympathy for the insurance companies, many hospitals are all too eager to gouge the hell out of emergency services and resist attempts to reduce
by dahdum 5y ago
While I have no sympathy for the insurance companies, many hospitals are all too eager to gouge the hell out of emergency services and resist attempts to reduce costs. It's where you get slammed with out-of-network specialists.
- gotostatement 5y agoBe that as it may, this is not a decision made due to financial pressure on the insurance companies. "UHC’s parent company UnitedHealth Group posted a 35 percent year-over-year jump in operating profits in the first quarter of 2021. Despite earning $6.7 billion in a single quarter, UHC enrollees are being asked to pay more for their coverage."
- gpm 5y agoSo what, that's not something under the patients control. You (as a society) can't (morally) go "oh, well some hospitals are malicious, so we're just going bankrupt random people who get unlucky". The insurance companies should lobby to make that illegal, if it's already illegal lobby to have that law enforced (if criminal) or take them to court (if civil) or both (if both). In the meantime they shouldn't be shifting the liability to the patients.