If anyone ever bothered to read our Anti Trust Laws, I have, they would soon see that they are basically a description of how our Entire Medical Profession operates, they ALL BELONG IN PRISON!!!
Maybe it’s just to simple for people to get. Or they’ve been too indoctrinated by decades of this criminal behavior. Or, my favorite, “Tort Reform will fix it”.
Yup, many on here just want the ACA repealed, but that simply isn't going to cut it. Healthcare costs in the US were growing 8-10% a year from 1960-2008 before the ACA was passed and its grown at a similar level since then. If it keeps up, in 20 years, the country will be bankrupt and the middle class will spend 30%+ of their income on healthcare "coverage."
Maybe that’s redundant. Our entire system is a prison, full of noxious gas and all of us locked inside. And Satan is the jailkeeper.
A massive jailbreak is our only hope.
The "design of the product" is dictated, and in many if not most cases, the price of the service is dictated too. Whatever the ramifications of "competition" are, they tend to reduce cost to the supplier, and increase market size and market share.
Congress can mouth the words "free market" all day long, but their actions clearly lay out that the words are a bald-faced lie.
Nobody should be surprised at this.
Yes, US hospitals (pharma, med-device mfgs, and lawyers) are robbing us blind.
Proof:
Why Hospitals Mark Up Prices by 1,000 Percent - Newsweek
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Jun 15, 2015 ... Why Hospitals Mark Up Prices by 1,000 Percent. By Wendell ... (Chargemasters are lists of all the items and services hospitals bill for. Hospitals ...
Many U.S. hospitals mark up prices 1,000 percent: study - Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-hospitals-prices-idUSKBN0OO2C920150608 Proxy Highlight
Jun 8, 2015 ... Many U.S. hospitals mark up prices 1,000 percent: study ... markups, but in the past hospitals have said list prices, shown on a “chargemaster,” ...
Some Hospitals Marking Up Prices More Than 1,000 Percent - 2015 ...
www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2015/some-hospitals-... Proxy Highlight
Jun 8, 2015 ... The 50 hospitals in the U.S. with the highest markup of prices over ... Many hospital patients don’t actually pay the “charge master” or full price.
How Hospitals Mark Up the Cost of Over-the-Counter Supplies Like ...
https://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/03/how-hospitals-m... Proxy Highlight
Mar 17, 2013 ... Chargemaster: Hospitals’ Killer App for Sucking Your Financial ... Cost of Over- the-Counter Supplies Like Aspirin and Q-tips as Much as 1000%.
50 US Hospitals That Mark Up Prices the Most - Live Science
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Jun 8, 2015 ... Some hospitals charge more 1000 percent mark-up for certain ... more so than a hospital’s internal list of prices, known as the chargemaster.
Extreme Markup: The Fifty US Hospitals With The Highest Charge ...
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Jun 24, 2015 ... In the United States, hospitals use the chargemaster, a list of .... This means that they are charging markups of more than 1,000 percent.
Study: Hospitals charge more than 20 times cost on some - JHU Hub
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Sep 8, 2016 ... However, the relation between chargemaster markups and hospital revenue, and the variation in markups across hospitals and departments, ...
50 hospitals charge uninsured more than 10 times cost of care ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-scienc... Proxy Highlight
Jun 8, 2015 ... Researchers said the hospitals with the highest markups are not in pricey ... it costs the hospital $100, they are going to charge you, on average, $1,000. ... In the United States, hospitals have the chargemaster, a lengthy list of ...
50 hospitals with markups of around 1,000 percent - CBS News
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Jun 8, 2015 ... At these hospitals, prepare to pay markups of 900 percent — or more ... compared hospitals’ so-called chargemasters — lists of procedure codes ...
Irrational Drug Prices Being Charged by Hospitals Continue to ...
www.panaceainc.com/enews/61-finance-and-reimbursement... Proxy Highlight
In particular, one hospital’s charge of more than $13,000 for a dose of the ... Because of this payment method, a hospital is incentivized to mark up a drug to ...
JCAH (accreditation for hospitals) working with CMMS (Medicaid, Medicare): you're not prescribing enough pain meds...You'll lose your accreditation if you don't start prescribing more.
BUT ITS ALWAYS FUN TO BLAME THE DOCTOR.
If any other business operated like the those in the medical industry they would be hauled up on RICO charges in 2 seconds.
Our own government (federal and before that states) not only allowed but sanctioned monopolies/
This is why I say, there is no rule of law. Some laws for some, different laws or no laws for others, different enforcement of laws depending on who you are. This is how a banana republic is run.