Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
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#2Really happy to see this practice banned. Sadly it will not take effect for another year.
Unfortunately, this is only one of many significant issues with US healthcare.
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#3The change does not apply to ambulances (except for air ambulances), ensuring the United States remains one of the few places in the world where a seriously ill person needs to debate if they're willing to risk their health and life to avoid a financially crippling trip to the hospital.
Re: Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
#4Really happy to see this practice banned. Sadly it will not take effect for another year. Unfortunately, this is only one of many significant issues with US healthcare.
I wouldn’t be surprised if hospitals already have other ways ready to screw people over once this goes into effect. As far as billing goes in my view they are basically criminal organizations that use fraud, intimidation and other things to squeeze people for money.
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#5The change does not apply to ambulances (except for air ambulances), ensuring the United States remains one of the few places in the world where a seriously ill person needs to debate if they're willing to risk their health and life to avoid a financially crippling trip to the hospital.
I was billed $3000 for a twenty minute ride to the hospital after somebody hit my car. I spent the time chatting with the EMTs. No treatment .
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#6The current US medical system reminds me a lot of very important legacy code that's become unmaintainable. Maybe the best way of rolling out universal healthcare is to take a refactoring approach. Get more and more people onto medicare, lowering the age limit and raising the maximum income threshold. Eventually, it would only be the wealthy who were still on the private insurance only system. Then employers can gradually replace health coverage with other benefits.
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#7The change does not apply to ambulances (except for air ambulances), ensuring the United States remains one of the few places in the world where a seriously ill person needs to debate if they're willing to risk their health and life to avoid a financially crippling trip to the hospital.
"‘As I was being eaten, I was thinking about my insurance’: Woman who lost face in bear attack on why she’s voting for Bernie Sanders"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
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#8If the underlying problem (in-network discounted rates for services and out of network excess that the service provider can charge - honestly this practice should be made criminal - imagine Sams club selling a computer to non-members for 10x the cost the members pay) is not addressed, the surprise bill just becomes someone elses prolem (other patients end up paying).
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#9> Some private-equity firms have turned this kind of billing into a robust business model, buying emergency room doctor groups and moving the providers out of network so they could bill larger fees.
If this doesn’t describe evil, I don’t know what else would.
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#10> Some private-equity firms have turned this kind of billing into a robust business model, buying emergency room doctor groups and moving the providers out of network so they could bill larger fees. If this doesn’t describe evil, I don’t know what else would.
It should be illegal