Post AUdAx8exl9PNfNDo8W by UROCKlive1@toad.social
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 (DIR) Post #AUYxjx3U2u9uxkT0KG by UROCKlive1@toad.social
       2023-04-12T03:15:16Z
       
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       Health insurance makes hospital care more expensiveThe price that a hospital charges a cash-paying patient is often lower than the negotiated price that a commercial insurance plan would pay.Health-care prices rise because most Americans have insurance. If everyone had grocery insurance, food prices would skyrocket, too. Health insurance coverage has led to high costs and suboptimal health outcomes. Remove the middlemen for routine services, and prices will fall.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/11/hospital-prices-health-insurance-high-costs/
       
 (DIR) Post #AUZ2t6CrtFkriq2OZs by lumiere2016@mastodon.cloud
       2023-04-12T04:12:56Z
       
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       @UROCKlive1 "After intense lobbying by insurers"  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/health/medicare-overbilling-insurance.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AUZ8BOKPkhmWuQ6pBQ by MattFerrel@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-04-12T05:12:18Z
       
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       @UROCKlive1 health insurers are parasitic middlemen that provide no value whatsoever
       
 (DIR) Post #AUZaPM5zeBrKktoK0G by provuejim@techhub.social
       2023-04-12T10:28:33Z
       
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       @UROCKlive1 The problem with this take is, routine services are only a small portion of overall healthcare expenditures. Nothing that happens in a hospital is routine.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUZyFvrSDO7xgU38bY by hh201707@mstdn.social
       2023-04-12T14:55:46Z
       
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       @UROCKlive1 Time for single payer system.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUaasKXsgTe5VHdC2S by Rycaut@mastodon.social
       2023-04-12T22:08:29Z
       
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       @UROCKlive1 @donmelton this is true even if you have insurance. I had a few day stay at a hospital years ago (during the pandemic) for something unavoidable and an emergency (not COVID) when I was discharged the hospital offered me a 20% discount on what they estimated my co-pay would be if I could pay them within 48hrs (even gave a refund if my insurance covered more than they estimated)I could pay them so I did. But someone without cash/available credit would have owed 20% more w/insurance
       
 (DIR) Post #AUdAx8exl9PNfNDo8W by UROCKlive1@toad.social
       2023-04-14T04:02:09Z
       
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       @Rycaut @donmelton  Wow. This is good to know. I have some tests coming up.