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Originally Posted by flstf
I don't doubt that there are people who take advantage of the system and maybe something could be written into the law to disallow some things. However if your child falls down and breaks their neck you have no control over how much it will cost you.
You call 911 and rush them to the hospital and the doctors begin to work on them. You don't know if the doctor(s) will charge you $100 or $100,000. In a system with little or no competition we need some sort of protection from loosing everything because of an illness or injury. I believe that these "out of control" healh care costs should be treated differently than normal credit card debt when it comes to bankruptcy filing.
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No argument there. Not only do they slap huge bills on you, but I personally once got billed for a radiologist looking at an x-ray of me two days later. After I'd already been treated by an orthopedist.
It was purely a CYA by the hospital. Well, not purely. It was also a money grab.
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The medical industry does not seem to be controlled by the usual "supply and demand" of free market pricing. I'm not blaming them but I have about as much trouble shopping for health care as I do in trying to control the cost of the next cruise missile the government buys.
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Sorry, this is inaccurate. The medical industry, in most instances, is highly regulated in regard to cost. The medical INSURANCE industry, on the other hand, avoids antitrust suits by paying huge sums to our esteemed politicians.
I think the reason you have this opinion is that you do not have medical insurance. In that circumstance, yeah, the sky's the limit.