I was expecting maybe a $4000-6000 bill but opening the bills to find over $50,000 is crazy.
An MRI typically runs $2000 - 5000, including both the technical and professional fees. That's not what is paid, but what is generally quoted as the "cost." It's a shame that they're charging that much, it's grossly inflated.
I was expecting maybe a $4000-6000 bill but opening the bills to find over $50,000 is crazy.
Actual reimbursement for an MRI is typically around 1000 bucks, that includes both technical and professional fees.
No, Hayabusa... what we need, are people to democratically vote on it.What we need to do is have a bunch of politicians who don't know anything and can only spend a fraction of the needed time on this create a partisan system of stuff, call it UHC, and shove it down our throats without any real understanding of what's needed, indeed, ignorant of the basics.
That will show us who's boss. Next up, Congress build a nuke plant of their own design.
I'd rather to back to the 1960s when HC was cheap and you wrote a $10 check to your doctor. My parents didn't even have health insurance with 8 kids until like 1980. Didnt need it. Everything was so damn cheap. But baring that return to a truly capitalist system you must have Euro style or else run away costs occur.
You've got your own forum for all that. The forum where everything is all neat, tidy, orderly and sanitized, where everybody extends their pinkies when they post and farts don't smell. Rule as the overlord in that one and let the rest of us post what we will here.
Micromanaging control freaks. Just can't get enough of that!
What the hell is wrong with you?
I do think we need to fix health care. I do NOT think obamacare is the answer though. Even before it was changed it didn't take care of the core problem. Private health insurance company's.
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There's more... ultimately, I would pose questions to the proponents of Obamacare / socialized medicine: Why does the gov't exempt others and themselves from participation if this is such a good program?
.....Should I continually rant about the Great Society agenda of LBJ? Wouldn't garner me much respect would it? Get my point or is too obscure for you?
Collectively, our stories also have nothing to do with the cost of healthcare. :whiste:
Between the two insurance companies they paid $10,000 leaving over $40,000 still outstanding being billed to me.
Imagine if there was something that actually required either of us to be admitted?
Imagine if there was an injury that they could actually do anything about?
We both had broken ribs and her a broken collar bone as well.
Nothing that could be casted or anything.
Just given a few pain pills.
This country is just plain nuts, nothing else could be said.
Could you please describe your ideal health care program?
Thank you for your efforts and cutting through the bull sactoking.
Originally Posted by boomerang
You've got your own forum for all that. The forum where everything is all neat, tidy, orderly and sanitized, where everybody extends their pinkies when they post and farts don't smell. Rule as the overlord in that one and let the rest of us post what we will here.
Micromanaging control freaks. Just can't get enough of that!
He's right, what's wrong with you?
Go there since you love it so much and stay out of here.
No, RepulicansDontCare is a disaster. My health care costs go up 15% per year, and because I have pre-existing conditions I can't change plans.
Americans pay more and get worse care than any other first world country.
Obamacare is what Republicans proposed. Single payer is what we need.
From what you'ver posted it doesn't sound like you had health insurance.
A medical cost portion of motorcycle insurance is not health insurance.
Accident insurance of any kind is not health insurance.
What we need is pretty simple, how the dems and repubs screwed it up beyond belief is hard to understand.
* Eliminate the insurance companies, pay the government directly who pays the hospital directly, let the middle man die off
* Regulate prices so that hospitals aren't charging $500 to bring you a boiled hot dog for dinner and $5000 for an xray. One standard price for one standard procedure, adjusted by inflation
* Put a cap on malpactice suits to lower insurance costs for doctors and hospitals
* Increase the hard cap on the number of doctors that are allowed to exit medical school each year so that we have more doctors internally
* Eliminate advertising for big pharma (spending hundreds of millions on advertising for prescription drugs is ludicrous)
* Data mine surgical procedures to find which ones are the best, not which ones cost the most to give the doctor the most money
You see you have a lot of good ideas there. But they you have to throw in the typical liberal belief that health care is a right that everyone is entitled to equal access to regardless of there life choices.
If middle men are so bad why are liberals so fixated on only one middle man?
Yeah, that's why reps didn't vote for this steaming pile of dung and Obama had to bribe certain congressdrones to get them to vote for it.
Just like everyone deserves police protection and fire protection, everyone deserves to live.
Just like everyone deserves police protection and fire protection, everyone deserves to live.