The high cost of Medical Care is going to lead to a National Health Plan...and that will make it impossible to get GOOD care on top of the present high costs!
It's a tragedy that we are forced to pay such high premiums for little in return. Yet, the die has been cast. At this point what can a consumer do about it?
Illegals would be able to pay for their own care, if the ER and other services weren't so darn expensive! I used to work in a Hospital Billing department, and the bills were padded with costs like $3 for an Asprin, because the Insurance Co.s have contracts that they will only be billed a percentage of the total cost. A $30,000 stay in the hosptial would be contracted at only 60% of the cost! But Cash patients would be billed for the whole thing!