re: Healthcare costs make no sense ($11k for an FNA biopsy)

If you have ever sat down and reviewed a procedure done at the hospital or even a hospital stay longer than a day then you will see why Insurance cost are thru the roof. Seems like half the charges are made up. Maybe because they are trying to recoup losses for the non insured or something else but it is a shame that the working class is the ones getting screwed with higher rates every year.

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quit paying medical bills years ago. They just send them to collection. I pay UHC each month, whatever they pay to the provider is enough.

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This!!!!

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quit paying medical bills years ago. They just send them to collection. I pay UHC each month, whatever they pay to the provider is enough.

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I did the same for a few years due to times being tough. Credit score was still in the mid-700s. My kids had some health issues and one had to be hospitalized. The bills that kept coming, $500 here, $4000 there, x 10, on top of me paying for a family plan PPO through my employer just became too much.

I really wish the Republicans would have put some kind of effort into a healthcare bill while they have both chambers and the presidency.

I guess it's more beneficial for all parties involved to be able to complain about it at election time rather than try and fix it.

I live outside of America so i have an international health insurance policy.. i pay $125 usd per month (im 46) .. it covers me in just about every single country on the planet, i think my limit is $2,000,000 usd.. except, the one country i am NOT covered in is the USA.. my agent said it’s b/c insurers are wise to the USA healthcare/insurance racket and they dont want to be on the hook for a $75k bill if i break an arm or something while im visiting family ..recently i had to go to one of the hospitals in Asia for something relatively minor.. went to the ER of this hospital that looked more like a Four Seasons hotel.. within 5 min i was meeting with a Dr.. had x rays done, then consulted with another Dr , a specialist .. all of them spoke perfect English.. took less than an hour, they sent me on my way with a couple prescriptions- i paid out of pocket, didnt even use my insurance, and the whole thing, all in, cost me $65 usd.. US healthcare costs are fricking retarded .

We're paying for the illegals in emergency.

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Doctors have to pay for all those uninsured/medicare/medicade patients

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FIFY.

If you don't think regular folks with insurance aren't subsdising the rest of the industry, I have news for you.

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If you don't think regular folks with insurance aren't subsdising the rest of the industry, I have news for you.

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If I was a physician in a clinic, I’d refuse to see Medicaid patients. They’re the least compliant and always loaded with health issues, and half the time they just don’t even show up for the appointment because their lives are train wrecks. The icing on the cake is I’d then get paid about 60% or less of what a very compliant, stable, polite patient covered by a commercial policy would pay.

And the pockets of the executives. I
We don’t have health care. Nothing health care about it. It’s a scam.