[blackdog]

You neglect the absurd inaccuracies in medical billing. I can say by experience that 50% of the charges that migrate their way to your mailbox after a procedure do so for the next six months are not accurate or appropriate. The providers subscribe to billing services with algorithms that "maximize patient revenues". They bill every past insurance plan (which you never handed over a coverage card), they bill you for every customary thing you did not receive, but they know will not get a denial. You still get the denial because your $8,000 copay had not yet been met. And it goes on, and on, and on.

One of these algorithm programs was designed for use in the DC Metro area by Federal Judge James Boasberg's wife. She designed billing services maximization programs for obtaining maximum revenues in abortion services. Every federal, state,vand County dollar the software says could be lurking in unrealized grants, or programs after running crosschecks on your age, race, income, zip code, marital status, assets owned.

[Leaning Right]

> You neglect the absurd inaccuracies in medical billing. <

That, and just absurd billing, period. Go to a pharmacy. Buy an aspirin for a few pennies. Get admitted to a hospital. Be billed an aspirin for $25.

Everyone must be responsible for their own bills. But by golly, things are way out of wack here.