It isn’t, though - insurance companies are limited in what they can charge to a percentage of the costs of medical services rendered. So, counter-intuitively, they’re actually heavily invested in raising healthcare costs, and even work with providers to make that happen, because that’s how insurance companies grow their profits.
The situation is so insane, your sarcastic joke is actually far less perverse than the reality here!
I mean I just paid $50 last weekend for street parking for 4 hours in Seattle.
If that’s all my colonoscopy cost, I’d happily pay it, instead of dealing with them insisting it’s really $11,000 but “my insurance is so ‘good’” they “talked them down” to only making me pay $3000
No, you miss what I’m saying. I’m saying there should be a required penalty in all types of such overbilling, not just medical.
Yeah. There is no “reasonable people can disagree” on universal healthcare. Either you agree with it, or your stupid/ignorant and unqualified to have an opinion, or you’re a sociopath.
Can’t make money that way, though, & that in their eyes is immoral… as well as Socialist, etc.
Similarly, why should anyone profit from human misery… because that’s exactly what private prisons do.
We already are, in the form of taxes & premiums. Cut out the middlemen & we save a ton of money in the process, at all levels.
I don’t see Insurance as being all that far removed from being a Ponzi Scheme.
Does anyone have a link to that hospital skit…“Yes, but where is the money?”…that starred David Walliams of Little Britain? I look for it often, but cannot seem to find it.
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