I think hospitals are badly taking advantage of people, about the pricing of American healthcare.
Myself.
Good for Trump, on this. The healthcare industry is a huge, expensive mess.
Just my opinion.
It is not the hospitals. It’s the “providers.” The doctors/specialists are not hospital employees. The margin for a not for profit, non teaching hospital is about 2%. Read, religious or “community” hospital.
Of course you may share a room with a welfare recipient. But guess what...you are going to get similar treatment and the same medical care.
Most folks like going to the hospitals designed to look and feel like hotels. The meds are the same. The joint commission and CMS requirements are EXACTLY the same. You can already look up prices. Ask your insurance company. They will break it down for you.
The sticker shock is a reasonable reaction. But look at the details. That $156 charge for the two minute visit is not going to the nurse or the guy sweeping the floor. It’s going to YOUR doctor, based on what CMS establishes as a proper charge.
Your reaction is like getting angry at the gas station owner for the price of oil.
They are recklessly overcharging - especially emergency room visits. When I saw the costs for a two hour visit last summer, I almost fainted dead away. I think posting those prices will keep people from SEEKING medical care.
Try pharmaceuticals...
These guys are raping the public. When politicians are bought by these interests, the career politicians make regulations so that there can be no competition; the first rule against free market enterprise. 15 year + patents make for NO competition. Then they make rules where these same companies can get additional patent rights for up to 20 years. And of course... “pay to delay” is another bone the law makers have thrown to this ravenous dog. Pharmaceuticals pay off, at the expense of the sick, other competitors in order to make sure they not to do anything.
Prices on drugs are killing this country and making a few rich at the expense of the sick. It’s the unfair and inequitable patent laws that need to be cut to like 5 years.
And how about the company that bought an already defunct patent for epi pens and then raised the price over 1000%. That patent was paid for by the taxes of our parents during WWII. What “swamp scum” authorized the sale of this patent?
Yup. This is a much bigger piece of WINNING than people realize.
Next we need to make them post their negotiated prices with health insurers. The $5000 procedure that your insurance company negotiates down to three hundred and ten bucks.
I think hospitals are badly taking advantage of people, about the pricing of American healthcare.
In my area of Florida most hospitals seem to be gushing money. Opulent new facilities, in demand jobs, etc.