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Hospitals must now tell you their prices. This is “yuge.”
SHARYL ATTKISSON.com ^ | November 16,2019 | SHARYL ATTKISSON

Posted on 11/16/2019 8:57:40 AM PST by Hojczyk

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1 posted on 11/16/2019 8:57:40 AM PST by Hojczyk
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Winning. No ways tarred.


2 posted on 11/16/2019 8:59:24 AM PST by PGalt
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Were is the GOP Senate on health care reform....no where...

Trump all by himself...GOP is useless


3 posted on 11/16/2019 8:59:55 AM PST by Hojczyk
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And if you are in need of critical care what are you going to do with that info? Obxxx and his minions have screwed the health care system up and even the vet charges more now. Hey, x-ray machines work on humans and animals. Drugs get prescribed for humans and animals.


4 posted on 11/16/2019 9:00:44 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I was listening to Dennis Prager a year or two ago and he mentioned he was able get an MRI for a hundred bucks by having it done at 10pm somewhere.


5 posted on 11/16/2019 9:00:57 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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bmp


6 posted on 11/16/2019 9:04:30 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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isn't it amazing how hospitals work...

Can you imagine going into Walmart and NOT knowing what something costs until you've already checked out??

7 posted on 11/16/2019 9:06:41 AM PST by M-cubed
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And if you are in need of critical care what are you going to do with that info?

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I think over time prices will even out now that they have to be publicized.


8 posted on 11/16/2019 9:07:41 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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This is a brilliant!

It’s a first step to privatizing health care (or at least allowing private health care), which is the ONLY way costs will be reduced.

I’m not tired of winning!


9 posted on 11/16/2019 9:08:31 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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Set up medical “free trade zones”

American’s need CHOICE over the bloated, corrupt, gerrymandered multi-payer system government has given us


10 posted on 11/16/2019 9:09:12 AM PST by PGR88
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Long overdue. Winning!


11 posted on 11/16/2019 9:11:16 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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I’d love to know NJ’s fee for an MRI. Unless I was misreading, they charged me $100,000 for one. Not making that up.


12 posted on 11/16/2019 9:12:46 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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Not exactly apples to Apples is it… ??

When you going to the hospital for a procedure of any kind… many different variables coming to play. Some of them unseen until unseen tests are taken and unseen/unknown results are discovered.

Medical procedures are not exact science… and can and more often than mot...go off into several different directions.

When you check in the hospital… what you’re hoping for is comprehensive medical treatment. Regardless of the cost.

Having hospitals display their prices… is simply an exercise in futility. And a very silly idea.


13 posted on 11/16/2019 9:12:58 AM PST by ShackledNoMore
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Makes me happy that I cannot have an MRI. Outrageous gouging, the insurance will never pay more than their contracted allowable, but the prices they show is what they will try to gouge the uninsured.


14 posted on 11/16/2019 9:16:11 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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I would like to see the same for veterinarian clinics, it seems some are way out of line.
15 posted on 11/16/2019 9:17:04 AM PST by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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They develop these amazing procedures and machines and then make sure no one can have one.


16 posted on 11/16/2019 9:17:10 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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And if you are in need of critical care what are you going to do with that info?

This is the argument my socialist acquaintances always give me: "when you are having a heart attack, are you going to haggle with the hospital?"

The answer is: A free market creates the ample supply of goods and universal access that eliminate the need. When you are out of gas and in a hurry, do you need to haggle with the gas station? Same with food - does the supermarket charge different prices for a fat man and a starving man?

A controlled market destroys access to supply, and thus destroys choice. "Health care" in Cuba is free. Is that someplace you want to have a heart-attack?

17 posted on 11/16/2019 9:17:55 AM PST by PGR88
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LOL! They may even out but like most things, once they head upwards, they ain’t coming back down. And, the, as princess screeching owl calls them, ‘buh-zillionaires’ will still be able to buy better care than us peons. Ain’t capitalism awesome? :-)


18 posted on 11/16/2019 9:18:54 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Unless I was misreading, they charged me $100,000 for one.
I do hope you at least contested the charge!
19 posted on 11/16/2019 9:19:53 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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“Trump all by himself...GOP is useless”

It needed to be said again.


20 posted on 11/16/2019 9:20:00 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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