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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHealth Care: "They are marking up the prices because no one is telling them they can't."
The Supreme Court may be preparing to flunk the Affordable Care Act as a typing test. In honor of this scenario, we get a reminder of just how great things were in our for-profit system before all the tyrannical Kenyan Muslim jackboots stomped it flat.
(Yes, the epicenter of this profiteering of human misery is Florida, which last fall re-elected Governor Batboy, who's spent most of this term monkeywrenching any effort to provide his poorer constituents decent health-care. )
Because...freedom!
Make no mistake. If the Supreme Court does its mischief, this is what health-care in this country will devolve to again.
As it is currently practiced in this country, capitalism cannot keep people healthy. It's like depending on a hammer to cure your headache.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35582/people-and-profits-in-american-health-care/
All but one of the these facilities is owned by for-profit entities, and by far the largest number of hospitals 20 are in Florida. For the most part, researchers said, the hospitals with the highest markups are not in pricey neighborhoods or big cities, where the market might explain the higher prices. Topping the list of the most expensive hospitals is North Okaloosa Medical Center, a 110-bed facility in the Florida Panhandle about an hour outside of Pensacola. Uninsured patients are charged 12.6 times the actual cost of patient care.
(Yes, the epicenter of this profiteering of human misery is Florida, which last fall re-elected Governor Batboy, who's spent most of this term monkeywrenching any effort to provide his poorer constituents decent health-care. )
"They are price-gouging because they can," said Gerard Anderson, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, co-author of the study in Health Affairs. "They are marking up the prices because no one is telling them they can't."
Because...freedom!
Make no mistake. If the Supreme Court does its mischief, this is what health-care in this country will devolve to again.
Researchers said the main factors leading to overcharging are the lack of market competition and the fact that the federal government does not regulate the prices that health-care providers can charge. Only two states, Maryland and West Virginia, set hospital rates.
As it is currently practiced in this country, capitalism cannot keep people healthy. It's like depending on a hammer to cure your headache.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35582/people-and-profits-in-american-health-care/
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Health Care: "They are marking up the prices because no one is telling them they can't." (Original Post)
phantom power
Jun 2015
OP
Anyone who has to deal with a hospital on a self pay basis needs to know about the chargemaster
tech3149
Jun 2015
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historylovr
(1,557 posts)1. K & R
tech3149
(4,452 posts)2. Anyone who has to deal with a hospital on a self pay basis needs to know about the chargemaster
and it's inflated pricing. You should always be able to reduce initial billing by 50%.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)3. Pricing in cities more justified than in rural hospitals? Isn't it the rural hospitals that are
closing?
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)4. yup. exactly the way that the heritage foundation drew it up
So discouraging that dems continue to sing the praises of this train wreck. It is hard for me to take Krugman seriously any more, since he continues to insist that it's healthcare.