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To: Sooth2222

The estimated cost of a liver transplant is $577,100.

Then insurance premiums should go down. But that would probably be in the long run.


20 posted on 07/21/2014 4:50:08 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62
"Then insurance premiums should go down. "

Not very likely with Obamacare, which has taken a dysfunctional and outrageously expensive health care system and made it even more dysfunctional and more outrageously expensive. Obamacare has resulted in a huge amount of drug price inflation. Gilead Sciences is taking advantage of pricing anomalies made possible by Obamacare, but they didn't create this, Obama did.

"This is what happens when a pill is priced at $1,000 a day in the U.S., and an entire treatment regimen of 84 of those pills costs just $900 in Egypt. Exact same medicine, completely different pricing."

I think if people purchased health insurance like they buy car insurance and life insurance and home insurance, we wouldn't be seeing prices anything like this. $300/year is optimistic.

22 posted on 07/21/2014 5:25:18 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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