Seems outrageous to me and like taking advantage of a bad situation. People here keep screaming for a free market solution to healthcare. It won’t work as long as this kind of thing is allowed. What are you going to do, shop for service with a bullet in you?
Medicine is priced like it is indespensible. It has been given a license to steal for profit.
The US military should send their surgeons there TDY in preparation for deployments to rinky dink countries where we are fighting.
Well hotshot the types of medical treatment these folks received is pretty much indispensable.
No, they have to inflate these prices because the government and insurance companies (not that these gunshot victims have insurance) will pay them an extremely small percentage of what they bill. This has nothing to do with the free market. The US hasn’t had a free market in health insurance or care since at least 1965. That is why costs have skyrocketed and free-loaders can force the rest of us to pay their bills.
These are inner city blacks shooting each other up and mostly suburban taxpayers footing the bill. Can we call it reparations?
And that’s the point.
In a free market the hospital couldn’t charge these prices because no one would be able to pay them.
A free market would drive the price down to the point the consumer could afford and the provider could make a profit.