“If we want a doctor, we need insurance.
Your doctor doesn’t accept cash? “
The argument i ran into recently is not the payment with cash but ‘what about someone who doesn’t have the money’ type of argument. How fair is it that some people have to pay full price for a drs appointment and tests and the insurance companies have payment rates that knock that price down for their policy holders. The argument was “why should the ones paying cash have to pay for those who have insurance?” What about those who really can’t pay? I know of some who don’t have insurance because it just isn’t in the budget, but who probably will be making to much to get assistance in paying for the mandated insurance so they still won’t have insurance.
If you’re paying cash lots of doctors & hospitals will give you a discount.