Meadows says Obamacare repeal is alive, Trump will deliver

Washington Examiner ^ | 26 March 2017 9:26 AM | Joseph Lawler

[M Kehoe]

It will die on the vine.

Rat’ talking about Medicare in the ‘80s to Gingrich.

5.56mm

[mazda77]

Hmmmm. Curious.

I needed a hernia operation and went first to the surgeon who did an umbilical hernia 7 years prior. I have no idea what his insured office visit is but the cash price was $386 just for the consultation. Going into his billing office for a pre-determination of costs, the person wrote down the Medicare billing codes with what the insured price would be as compared to the cash price. As I recall, the insured price for his portion was about $13000. If I paid cash it went to $4200.

Then I had to go to the Hospital’s billing room for the same. I gave the woman there the numbers and again was given the insured cost, I want to say it was over 37,000. The cash price would have been around $14,000. All of this is without whatever the gas-passer would have cost. I estimated the whole thing would have been over $60K for insured.

I was driving by a private surgical center and decided to call them to inquire.

For the same billing codes, a different surgeon, from the same surgical group, their facility fee and the gas-passer, $4200 total and that included the surgeons pre and post office visits. And this is in Jacksonville, FL.