A passage passed ignorance

[Wry Catcher]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

 

[there4eyeM]

Outrageous! It is immoral that people desperate for health care be held ransom and obliged out of love and life or death necessity to humiliate and bankrupt themselves.

Serious economists maintain that the US would actually save money by emulating France's system, rated with the very best in the world. It works very well.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Outrageous! It is immoral that people desperate for health care be held ransom and obliged out of love and life or death necessity to humiliate and bankrupt themselves.

Serious economists maintain that the US would actually save money by emulating France's system, rated with the very best in the world. It works very well.

There is a one-word argument oppossed to such a transition: SOCIALISM!
Most, by far, who yell "SOCIALISM" at the top of their lungs are little more than parrots, parrots repeating the propaganda of those who profit by the illness and injury of others.

 

[Mr Natural]

Special Ed should be here any minute to extol the virtues of our republican capitalist healtcare system.

 

[there4eyeM]

Outrageous! It is immoral that people desperate for health care be held ransom and obliged out of love and life or death necessity to humiliate and bankrupt themselves.

Serious economists maintain that the US would actually save money by emulating France's system, rated with the very best in the world. It works very well.

There is a one-word argument oppossed to such a transition: SOCIALISM!
Most, by far, who yell "SOCIALISM" at the top of their lungs are little more than parrots.

Yes, political ideology is more important to some than 'human'. Stalin, Hitler, Mao and others were all completely at ease with sacrificing life on the altar of a belief in a system. Those opposing reasonable health care for all when such a thing is possible, just because radicals want to put a label like 'socialist' on it, are of the same cloth.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

Don't get your Tylenol from the hospital.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

Don't get your Tylenol from the hospital.

Great advice! Probably many other things one should not get at a hospital. I'll bet you can make a nice long list.

What fun!

 

[Wry Catcher]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

Don't get your Tylenol from the hospital.

Great advice! Probably many other things one should not get at a hospital. I'll bet you can make a nice long list.

What fun!

I wouldn't expect either of you to read Times Special Issue on this topic.

 

[Oldguy]

But, we don't need no stinkin' healthcare reform, do we?

 

[Political Junky]

But, we don't need no stinkin' healthcare reform, do we?

Right, it's all about that rugged individualism that cons love so much.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

But, we don't need no stinkin' healthcare reform, do we?

What we don't need is more government to drive up the price of health care.

 

[there4eyeM]

But, we don't need no stinkin' healthcare reform, do we?

What we don't need is more government to drive up the price of health care.

No, government isn't needed for that. The present system makes it too expensive already, and very effectively.

What is needed is a sense that life is important and necessary to protect, and profit is just nice if also possible.

 

[Politico]

Wow 30 pages to tell everyone what they already know.

 

[MeBelle]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

To be fair, the article focuses on one hospital
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Which is supposed to be non-profit.


Code of Ethics | MD Anderson Cancer Center
Principle 10
Cancer therapy, prevention, education, and research are costly endeavors demanding conscientious stewardship; however, financial considerations should not dictate the quality of care offered to each patient.
Facts and History - Uncompensated Care | MD Anderson Cancer Center

FWIW-Several times I have been successful in getting a hospital bill cut way down. I use mock and ridicule.
One of my favorites was "Seriously, you're going to charge me $128 for a hospital gown that may have cost you $10 initially, has been used by others, and I don't even get to take it home?"
B!tching works!!

 

[Katzndogz]

Hospitals charge too much. Fix it. That takes tort reform. And, that would only help a little. Every time you pay an outrageous mark up for an aspirin, you are helping to pay for that fancy new MRI machine.

 

[Wry Catcher]

But, we don't need no stinkin' healthcare reform, do we?

What we don't need is more government to drive up the price of health care.

I suggest you read the article. Then even you might come to realize how singularly ignorant this post of your is.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

To be fair, the article focuses on one hospital
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Which is supposed to be non-profit.


Code of Ethics | MD Anderson Cancer Center
Principle 10
Cancer therapy, prevention, education, and research are costly endeavors demanding conscientious stewardship; however, financial considerations should not dictate the quality of care offered to each patient.
Facts and History - Uncompensated Care | MD Anderson Cancer Center

FWIW-Several times I have been successful in getting a hospital bill cut way down. I use mock and ridicule.
One of my favorites was "Seriously, you're going to charge me $128 for a hospital gown that may have cost you $10 initially, has been used by others, and I don't even get to take it home?"
B!tching works!!

The examples in the article come from UT Anderson Cancer Center, Stamford Hospital in Conn., Bridgeport Hospital in Conn. Mercy Hospital in OK, and the focus is on profit - emphasis on the profit non-profits actually make; the difference between costs based on Chargemaster and that paid by private insurance and Medicare.

The article is enough to give most Republicans and even the most conservative right wingers heartburn, a condition which might cost the patient who seeks treatment $21,000 as Janice S. learned after going to Stamford Hospital.

 

[Defiant1]

Time Special Report: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

"One (1) Acetaminophen tablet costs 1.5 cents; your hospital marks it up 10,000%"

TIME Magazine Cover: Bitter Pill - Mar. 4, 2013 - medicine - health care - U.S. - America - politics - doctors - health - pills -

To be fair, the article focuses on one hospital
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Which is supposed to be non-profit.


Code of Ethics | MD Anderson Cancer Center
Principle 10
Cancer therapy, prevention, education, and research are costly endeavors demanding conscientious stewardship; however, financial considerations should not dictate the quality of care offered to each patient.
Facts and History - Uncompensated Care | MD Anderson Cancer Center

FWIW-Several times I have been successful in getting a hospital bill cut way down. I use mock and ridicule.
One of my favorites was "Seriously, you're going to charge me $128 for a hospital gown that may have cost you $10 initially, has been used by others, and I don't even get to take it home?"
B!tching works!!

The examples in the article come from UT Anderson Cancer Center, Stamford Hospital in Conn., Bridgeport Hospital in Conn. Mercy Hospital in OK, and the focus is on profit - emphasis on the profit non-profits actually make; the difference between costs based on Chargemaster and that paid by private insurance and Medicare.

The article is enough to give most Republicans and even the most conservative right wingers heartburn, a condition which might cost the patient who seeks treatment $21,000 as Janice S. learned after going to Stamford Hospital.

Don't you believe in "choice'? Don't go to any of those hospitals.

Problem solved.

 

[Wry Catcher]

To be fair, the article focuses on one hospital
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Which is supposed to be non-profit.


Code of Ethics | MD Anderson Cancer Center
Principle 10
Cancer therapy, prevention, education, and research are costly endeavors demanding conscientious stewardship; however, financial considerations should not dictate the quality of care offered to each patient.
Facts and History - Uncompensated Care | MD Anderson Cancer Center

FWIW-Several times I have been successful in getting a hospital bill cut way down. I use mock and ridicule.
One of my favorites was "Seriously, you're going to charge me $128 for a hospital gown that may have cost you $10 initially, has been used by others, and I don't even get to take it home?"
B!tching works!!

The examples in the article come from UT Anderson Cancer Center, Stamford Hospital in Conn., Bridgeport Hospital in Conn. Mercy Hospital in OK, and the focus is on profit - emphasis on the profit non-profits actually make; the difference between costs based on Chargemaster and that paid by private insurance and Medicare.

The article is enough to give most Republicans and even the most conservative right wingers heartburn, a condition which might cost the patient who seeks treatment $21,000 as Janice S. learned after going to Stamford Hospital.

Don't you believe in "choice'? Don't go to any of those hospitals.

Problem solved.

I suggest you read the article. Then even you might come to realize how ignorant this post of your is.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Here's a short primer for those too lazy, to cheap or willfully ignorant:

Hospitals dismiss significance of chargemaster prices - FierceHealthFinance - Health Finance, Healthcare Finance

Expect more blowback from the hospital-medical community defending their golden goose. Keep in mind, it's good advice to follow the money.