re: Is the Healthcare/Pharma industry a giant scam?

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Radiologist has to look at each of those xrays. If you as a consumer could sort through the mountain of charges listed on the chargemaster and predict what would be needed to correct your probably, you could probably come within + or - 5000% of the actual ER bill.

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And yet we used to have health care without all that crap. It's possible. It may not be possible under the current regs but I refuse to believe that + or - 5,000% is the best an industry can do. That's dysfunctional.