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> having insurance yet filled with invisible asterisks. "Invisible asterisks" captures the reality perfectly. The asterisks are invisible and infinite. I think
by ohazi 5y ago
> having insurance yet filled with invisible asterisks.
"Invisible asterisks" captures the reality perfectly. The asterisks are invisible and infinite. I think even Kafka would be horrified.
We've turned medical billing into an impenetrable Byzantine hellscape, and I fear that the only way to fix it would be to nuke it from orbit and start over.
- cwkoss 5y agoMedicare For All is the single most important policy in American politics right now, IMO, for this exact reason. People complain that all the people in private insurance will be put out of their jobs - I view that as a feature, not a bug.
- ixacto 5y agoThis needs to happen. The medical billing industry is literal cancer. They sent me a bill for $350 then I called up to complain and suddenly the bill goes away because it’s billed to my other insurance that I didn’t even think I had anymore. If I sent a client a random bill for $$$ things would not go nearly as nicely, but they have so captured the regulators and politicians that this is the world we live in now. I want nothing to do with many of the policies of the left, but this would make things so much easier for small businesses and people Changing jobs in the labor market.