If you stay in the hospital one night after a tonsillectomy, insurance or Medicare will pay $3000 for that one night. But if you are paying for the same thing in the form of a one night stay after a facelift, the hospital will charge the recreational patient just $300.
Obamacare needs repealed.
To replace it, just deregulate all markets related to health care. Prices will be much more reasonable once the free market drives prices down.
Trump has said as much, but he is scoffed at for not having a serious plan for health care reform.
Sometimes just allowing the market to work its magic is the best "plan" of all.
Maybe the reason both left and right wing politicians hate Trump so much is that they fear the Health Care Gravy Train is going to be dismantled by him.
My guess is the insurance-health care org-big pharma-cartel is probably (collectively) the biggest lobbyist/bribe agent in Washington.
I had a cosmetic procedure at one of our local hospitals. No overnight stay but 5 hrs in the OR plus the use of their nurses and recovery room. $3400. I paid cash. The only thing that wasn’t included in that price was my doctor.
I have no idea what they would charge insurance but can use a procedure hubby had done 1 yr before at one of our local surgery centers. A colon procedure was billed to his insurance at $34,000.