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There is a pretty large continuum of potential value between the 'cheap' care that people want, and the ruinous bills that get charged.
by Arrath 5y ago
There is a pretty large continuum of potential value between the 'cheap' care that people want, and the ruinous bills that get charged.
- Goronmon 5y agoThere is a pretty large continuum of potential value between the 'cheap' care that people want, and the ruinous bills that get charged. That can't be true, everyone knows that people are only greedy and stupid, and it's really the citizens' fault for the prices of the current healthcare setup. The industry itself is all made up of kind-hearted super heroes who would never think of manipulating prices to syphon more money from patients.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoRuinous bills are frequently used to cover the costs of routine procedures. It’s another situation where 10% of the healthcare consumes 90% of the resources. It’s the person who needs 6 months in the hospital, the 2 month premature baby in NICU, the hemophiliac that needs $1M medication that balloon all the costs. And no one can really afford that, but instead of spreading the costs around to all taxpayers, we were spreading it around by inflating everything else. ACA helps with this, but today’s announcement about out of network care will help more too.