First time transparent hospital bills will kill GOP overbilling- TODAY from O-care.

[francoHFW]

It's funny how the dupes blame O-care for anything that appears to be going wrong, but nothing that's going right LOL. People ARE getting refunds from insurers that spend too much not on care...

That HAS started and counts, this posting of different hospital costs for the same thing will too, and next year there begin all kinds of cost savings that dupes will never hear about on the BS PPM. Sorry about your luck lol, chump of the greedy rich.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Government should nationalize healthcare, energy, auto, mortgage, agriculture, and education sectors and impose price controls.............

Because totalitarian communism works !!!

 

[francoHFW]

You're a brainwashed functional moron, dingbat. This is the GOP plan (the total hypocrites) they always put up to stop Clintoncare, Nixoncare, Cartercare, Trumancare, etc etc, chump of the greedy idiot un-American rich. Not communist in the least.

 

[RDD_1210]

All Obamacare does is force people to buy insurance thus driving demand for insurance up right along with prices.

Yes, the medical establishment is raping the public -- with Obama's able help.

Hmmm...and there I thought the idea of insurance is that the more people in the scheme, the cheaper it should be.
Especially if there are more younger people with less need for healthcare.

No, a bigger pool. The bigger pool amounts to more money being sucked up by the medical establishment. Do you really think having more money in the pool is going to drive down medical costs?

Please.

Please tell me you're not this dumb. Do you understand how insurance works? Even a little bit?

 

[The Professor]

So everything will cost what now?

Probably the same. Anyone who charges $5 for an aspirin has no shame.

This has been going on for decades. About 20 or so years ago, the Florid Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida, ran a series of reports about hospital costs. With a single exception the administrators of all the hospitals claimed the high cost of aspirins was due to the fact that a nurse had to administer them. It seems only one of the hospital's administrators was direct and honest. He stated that contrary to what other administrators said, it was cheaper for the hospital to proved aspirins than for the public to get them from the drug store. He said the only reason for the exaggerated price was that the hospital had to recover the money they lost by being required to treat patients who could not or would not pay. He is the only one who admitted that bills were padded.

 

[Flopper]

You can take the entire population of the U.S. subtract the 75 million children, if every person had to pay a single rate premium for health insurance of 4,000 it would come to 966 billion dollars. Hospital costs alone were 850 billion dollars.

So yes, there is definitely a big problem with hospitals gouging the masses. Why should any of us have to conform to a ins mandate when the hospitals and insurance companies are ripping us off and laughing about all the way to the bank?

In general, hospitals are not gouging the masses. They are doing exactly what they are suppose to do, treat the sick and injured using the best treatments available. If hospitals treated only those that could pay, used not the best methods of treatment but those that were most cost effective, and turned away those that they deemed to be too expensive to treat, then costs would fall like rock. However, that's not the kind of healthcare that most of us want.

 

[Flopper]

All Obamacare does is force people to buy insurance thus driving demand for insurance up right along with prices.

Yes, the medical establishment is raping the public -- with Obama's able help.

You're making the mistake of assuming that insurance is a finite commodity.

You're making the mistake of assuming that medical care is in unlimited supply. More money and more people in the pool will increase demand -- driving price, and thus premiums, higher.

Hide and watch.

You're making the mistake that most medical care is fully utilized and any increase in demand will drive up prices. Although there is a potential for a shortage of primary care doctors, hospitals which is where we have the big healthcare cost problem have excess capacities. There is also plenty of capacity in out patient centers and diagnostic services. In these areas increased utilization will increase profits and bring down prices.

 

[Flopper]

So everything will cost what now?

Probably the same. Anyone who charges $5 for an aspirin has no shame.

This has been going on for decades. About 20 or so years ago, the Florid Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida, ran a series of reports about hospital costs. With a single exception the administrators of all the hospitals claimed the high cost of aspirins was due to the fact that a nurse had to administer them. It seems only one of the hospital's administrators was direct and honest. He stated that contrary to what other administrators said, it was cheaper for the hospital to proved aspirins than for the public to get them from the drug store. He said the only reason for the exaggerated price was that the hospital had to recover the money they lost by being required to treat patients who could not or would not pay. He is the only one who admitted that bills were padded.

Something may have changed. My wife was in the hospital last month and they ask for a list of medications that she took on a regular basis which included an aspirin and an antacid daily. They suggested she bring these medications to the hospital because the cost was so high if they provided them. We did and there was no problem. I don't know if all hospitals do this or just the ones that are being cost conscience.