When No One Really Knows What Health Care Will Cost, Prices Skyrocket: Health care costs too much in part because no one can find out exactly what it costs — and few people have any incentive to do so.

The Federalist ^ | 12/05/2022 | Christopher Jacobs

[Organic Panic]

All caused directly by government interference.

[Organic Panic]

The walk in clinics will tell you. But a hospital or one of those medical center places yeah, they won’t tell you. They make it up as they go along.

[GOPJ]

The only innovative cost effective section of medicine is plastic surgery. And the reason why is because it’s not covered by insurance.

[The Great RJ]

I have had similar experiences with understanding my medical bills. I broke my elbow and had an outpatient surgical repair. The surgeons bill was less than $1,000, which I thought wasn’t unreasonable. The bill for the surgical center was over $20,000 but when I got the insurance statement, the surgical center bill had dropped by almost $6,000 to conform with the insurance company’s negotiated price. While my out of pocket cost stayed the same in any situation, I fail to understand why the surgical center could just drop its price by $6,000. I am certain that the prices being bantered around have little or nothing to do with the actual cost of providing the services.

[lepton]

So, they still haven’t implemented this basic law, and the administration isn’t enforcing it.