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Then there's the thieving hospitals. Used to be the doctors privately owned the hospitals...now the hospitals own the doctors. Non-profits...a "public private partnership"...are a legalized scam. There isn't a single private-hospital in my state.

2 hours in a stitch room cost my insurance 17,000 last year. Why?

"Free healthcare"

They are compelled to treat all comers in the ER...for "free". Then, in order to pay themselves back by charging your insurance $17,000.

It's called "cost shifting" and the practice needs to be banned.

Just like PJ O'Rourke said...."If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it's free."