Chump Change in Obamaworld.
Pelosi looks just like Ed Grimley from SCTV
Just as airlines and banks have sought ways to charge surcharges and additional fees, hospitals and doctors will find alternative ways to do the same. Although doctors cannot add surcharges to bills because of contract and regulatory prohibitions, there are other ways for providers to charge more money. Some providers are promoting non-covered services as a way to recoup losses from conventional offices visits and services. Other providers are adding “boutique” services that allow patients a certain number of personal phone calls, hospital visits and home visits for an annual fee.
So when you go to the doctor or hospital in the near future, they will be more interested in selling you vitamins or offering the newest non-covered services instead of treating you for your chief complaint. And if you decline the additional services, you can count on second rate (or no) service. You might complain about the care, but if the doctor or hospital isn’t making any money on the patient, they won’t miss the business.
Or maybe it will be USSR and Eastern Europe all over again where patients will need to bring their own bedsheets and a bottle of vodka for the doctor to get any service.