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Hospitals now require upfront payments for surgeries
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 06/11/2024 6:25:38 PM PDT by davikkm

Some hospitals and surgery centers are now requiring patients to pay upfront for surgeries. According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, this practice has become more common, with facilities refusing to perform surgery until they receive full payment. While this approach may allow patients to know the cost ahead of time and potentially shop around, it can be challenging for those who cannot afford unexpected medical bills. Approximately half of adults would be unable to pay a $500 medical bill in full without going into debt. As a result, many individuals must borrow the necessary funds to cover these upfront costs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; hospitals; surgeries
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1 posted on 06/11/2024 6:25:38 PM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

It should mean too we should be able to negotiate prices in advance.

90% of Americans, even professed “conservatives,” will hate the idea, because they have become SO used to other people paying - but America needs a completely free-market, free-choice, free association, and unregulated alternative medical system, to run alongside, and as an eventual outlet from, our bloated, expensive government-directed one, which will some day collapse with Fed.gov’s bloated debt.


2 posted on 06/11/2024 6:31:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: davikkm

I thought Obamacare fixed this


3 posted on 06/11/2024 6:31:48 PM PDT by struggle
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To: davikkm

“I’m not saying it definitely IS because of Illegal Aliens,
but yeah, it is!”


4 posted on 06/11/2024 6:32:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: struggle

It only fixed it, if you pay the first $10,000 deductible. In other words, 99% of the time, you are still paying for your own healthcare anyway. You only also pay for Obamacare and not really benefit from it as well.


5 posted on 06/11/2024 6:37:50 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: davikkm

What if, they wake you up in the middle and say,
“We’ve done all that we can do for the price that we discussed.”


6 posted on 06/11/2024 6:39:23 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: davikkm
Hospitals now require upfront payments for surgeries

Except convicted criminals, illegal aliens, gang bangers, narcotics traffickers, Muslim terrorists, and child traffickers.

7 posted on 06/11/2024 6:40:00 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: davikkm

They are already overbilling those with insurance to cover those who don’t pay.


8 posted on 06/11/2024 6:40:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: davikkm

“ Approximately half of adults would be unable to pay a $500 medical bill in full without going into debt”

Whoah Nelly. That’s awful.


9 posted on 06/11/2024 6:43:47 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: struggle; Lazamataz

[I thought Obamacare fixed this]

We tried to warn the fools.

Now we’re all in trouble. With Laz.


10 posted on 06/11/2024 6:55:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: davikkm

I had an outpatient procedure done a little over a month ago in the local hospital, and it was the first time I have ever had to pay the co-pay before the procedure. I paid cash, which messed with the cashier’s brain; at least I didn’t pay the co-pay with singles 🙂


11 posted on 06/11/2024 6:55:40 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Jonty30

I was the only one, in a group of about 15 managers, at a “healthcare” meeting in 2014 to ask the question:

My premiums would be about $400 a month. So $400 x 12 = $4,800 in a year.

The deductible was $12,000.

So, I asked the healthcare lady selling the product: “So, I’m out $16,800 in one year before you guys pay anything?”

She said “Yes”.

And that was Obamacare just for ME.

But, the idiots loved him.


12 posted on 06/11/2024 7:08:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: plain talk

[Approximately half of adults would be unable to pay a $500]

Since 2008 that was the theme - $500 would send most households spiraling downwards.

We HAD a President that was pro-America and pro-American worker - he also wanted to stop the illegals coming over the borders.

But....mean tweets, so.....


13 posted on 06/11/2024 7:10:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Navy Patriot
Except convicted criminals, illegal aliens, gang bangers, narcotics traffickers, Muslim terrorists, and child traffickers.

Hospitals will either say no or they'll schedule your surgery 6 months from now (then they'll reschedule it 6 months later).

14 posted on 06/11/2024 7:12:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SaveFerris

Allowing a tax free, as long as you spend the money on healthcare related expenses, investment account would be a much more efficient way of providing healthcare without taking money from the tax payers.

It’s probably also why Democrats won’t offer that.


15 posted on 06/11/2024 7:18:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Jonty30

You mean like an HSA?


16 posted on 06/11/2024 7:31:37 PM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: davikkm

The New motto or oath is:

Do No Harm UNLESS they can’t pay up front


17 posted on 06/11/2024 7:36:14 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: SaveFerris

Yep! And they put him in the White House twice.


18 posted on 06/11/2024 7:37:02 PM PDT by sport
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To: nevadapatriot

Yes. I think an HSA, interest bearing, is a great way to afford healthcare. Since the bulk of serious healthcare spending is on the older population, it gives them a lifetime to save for their final years.

Let up to $2 million be saved and allow to be transferred if unspent and you have healthcare everybody can afford.

It doesn’t cost the taxpayers anything.


19 posted on 06/11/2024 7:37:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Jonty30

Yeah, you can do an HSA but you’re out the money unless you spend it - My b-i-l had some that was going to expire so he went out and bought stuff that was allowed under HSA so he could at least get something for his money.


20 posted on 06/11/2024 7:38:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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