Reply #31: The biggest problem with health care is FAIR PRICING

[mongo]

I'm on Coumadin for the rest of my life. Back when I had health insurance, I had to pay nothing for the test, and the insurance company paid the lab $3.96 for the test.

Now I don't have health insurance and the test costs $39.00. WTF?

Same thing for emergency room bills, etc. They see someone without insurance and bill them at least 2-3X what they would get from insurance for the same services.

I think that if health care providers were forced to charge the minimum that they accept from an insurance company for a particular service, health care would become affordable to more people.