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I always know what I'm paying for a car, a house and even my dog, before I signed on the bottom line.
Get the doctors out of the insurance business. When they file you don't have a clue what your cost are going to be.
If you filed after the treatment, you may shop around for the value you wish, before the procedure takes place.
The complications would be the difference. Doctor gives you a price, so complications come out of his pay and cost, because he under bid the work.
Bet you never been in a car wreck and been airlifted a hundred miles away and then woke up three days later and then a month later looked at the bill. By the way if the wreck is your fault which it will be 50% of the time you pay...not the other guy. There isnt any bidding while you are unconscious...you have your insurance company to look after you. The conservative position of Free Market Health Care doesnt exactly work if you in a major accident.
Bet you never been in a car wreck and been airlifted a hundred miles away and then woke up three days later and then a month later looked at the bill. By the way if the wreck is your fault which it will be 50% of the time you pay...not the other guy. There isnt any bidding while you are unconscious...you have your insurance company to look after you. The conservative position of Free Market Health Care doesnt exactly work if you in a major accident.
This story completely explains your posts, it all makes sense now.
Bet you never been in a car wreck and been airlifted a hundred miles away and then woke up three days later and then a month later looked at the bill. By the way if the wreck is your fault which it will be 50% of the time you pay...not the other guy. There isnt any bidding while you are unconscious...you have your insurance company to look after you. The conservative position of Free Market Health Care doesnt exactly work if you in a major accident.
I have had emergency surgery before.
Doc was $1800
Anesthesiologist was $550
Emergency room was $3300(separate from the hosp)
Hospital surgery & recovery room, along with all "supplies was $20,000
My insurance paid 80% after deductible.
So even with insurance, I paid about $9000.
It was my choice which hospital to go to out of the 10 in the area.
I went for less wait time, with higher cost.
In this $117,000 case he signed a waiver without really looking and that allowed the bill to happen. I have had three surgeries and to tell you the truth I never looked at any of the paperwork. I was in an HMO and I knew everything would be in-network. They also never tell you what the bill will be except you can figure you will pay your deductible.
You really are the poster child for the party of no personal responsibility. Other than your insane Tea Party fixation how is this ANYONES fault but his own?
Do you guys consider this a personal attack or do you have anything to say about the $117,000 bill?
What have you said about it that is of any use? It happened despite regulations. I've shown that even under the government programs there is huge over billings.
We have hear a lot from the conservative base of the Republican Party aka Tea Partiers how Free Market Health Care will save everyone money. Whats to stop a doctor from charging whatever the market bears and then forcing people into bankruptcy. Heres a case where a guy went in for a simple surgery and because he didnt look closely at all the forms he signed he was hit with a $117,000 bill and no one is looking out for his best interests. If he had been on Medicare the bill would have been a fraction of what it was...So Tea Party-Conservatives how do you convince Americans that a $117,000 bill is a small price to pay for freedom.
We have hear a lot from the conservative base of the Republican Party aka Tea Partiers how Free Market Health Care will save everyone money. Whats to stop a doctor from charging whatever the market bears and then forcing people into bankruptcy. Heres a case where a guy went in for a simple surgery and because he didnt look closely at all the forms he signed he was hit with a $117,000 bill and no one is looking out for his best interests. If he had been on Medicare the bill would have been a fraction of what it was...So Tea Party-Conservatives how do you convince Americans that a $117,000 bill is a small price to pay for freedom.
Actually its Medicare which most recipients have only paid in 13% to 40% what they take out...in other words its a wealth transfer from the young to the old.
The bill wouldn't have happened under Medicare.
Have you ever bought any kind of insurance? If one ever has a big claim (death, bad auto accident) it's quiet likely they receive more than they have paid in. That is the nature of insurance.
Insurance companies invest heavily, which is how they pay the claims. They 'put the money to work,' so to speak. They do not just put it in a sock. If they did, they would be bankrupt upon paying the first claim.
I'll bet you don't have a problem with other government "wealth transfers" though, do you, like from those who earn to those who would rather live off welfare payments? That's okay in your book. Right?
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