They've been around for a few years.
Example:
Posted on 06/24/2019 1:47:37 PM PDT by buckalfa
I once had an insurance company try to not pay the bill because I was not in an insured surgical facility. Turned out the doctor leased the surgical room in his office to an outside company who maintained the room.
Like I’m supposed to review the lease
wow
“The bills started to clear up when I threatened to start billing them $200 an hour for forensic accounting services.”
Years ago, I had a co-worker who had a young son who was dying of cancer. He finally called in his doctor, and told him in no uncertain terms, that without his personal written authorization, NO ONE was to see his son for any reason. It was enough, he said, that his child was going to die, but adding the financial insult of having a mountain of medical bills left in the wake of his passing wasn’t going to happen.
The whole medical care “industry,” doctors, hospitals, drug and insurance companies and medical device mfrs., is worse by far than the Military/Industrial Complex.
Two years ago the wife of a dear couple ( they are 10 years our senior) we had come to know quite by accident courtesy of our dog ( bless her heart), had a heart problem (she was 85 at the time, but you would never know it to look at her). Out of her “team of doctors,” only one thought she deserved to have the heart surgery that she needed in order to continue to live. The rest said put her in hospice care and let her die! Her husband ( who is three years her senior pressed them to do the surgery). We had dinner with the two of them last evening, she is in amazingly good health, thanks to the surgery that put in a new Aortic Heart Valve! Today, good health is your only guarantee of continuing to live, because the “medical profession” looses interest in treating you as you age!
They've been around for a few years.
Example:
...but the action will only benefit the uninsured...
However, I do think it’s broader than that. There will become a real price competition, even if you are insured. The cool thing is that they will have to honor this price even if you are insured.
Then again, it could be like the “list price” on items that is never really the price charged.
They’ll just put out list prices that are five to six times as high as what they’ll actually get.
This speaks to why I applaud this EO.
I’m uninsured. What I’ve found is that you can whittle them down to 10-30% of the actual bill. I base this on my and quite a few acquaintances’ first hand experience.
Don’t go to hospitals. Die first. You’d be better off, probably. Eat well, take your chances
I honestly don’t understand the culture’s pre-occupation with health care. Stop with the big macs, donuts and cigarettes. You’ll almost certainly be fine. And even if you aren’t, so what? Life is short, Everything is an adventure. And then you die, which for the dead guy is an improvement, assuming he’s the Lord’s.
The government-medical-pharma-legal complex is deep, handles 17% of our economy, is highly unionized, employs leagues of lawyers and is chock full of waste and fraud.
The amount of money saved, at age 65, is staggering. It’s life changing. And I’m not afraid to get sick or die. It’s part of life.
Yeah. You drink some raw vinegar every day, too?
“The system needs more transparency. ”
Shouldn’t be that much different than car insurance, should it?
With car insurance, there’s many repairs for cash, and people doing their own repairs, and that keeps that sector more honest.
With the “mother”, but not every day.
That is why I fully applaud this EO. He gets it. He’s doing things that were not even on most people’s radar but was on mine. The first time he did that was when he moved the embassy to Jerusalem. Other presidents talked about it. He did it.
You’re right leaf.
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