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http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/07/504589131/doctors-and-hospitals-tell-patients-show-us-the-money-before-treatment?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_medium=social
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They also want your credit card for charges beyond agreed amounts with the insurance.
ReplyDeleteI saw this in Nigeria and Ghana. Couldn't believe it ! One person arrives at an hospital with a bullet in the foot. First thing they asked him: register, pay a kind of fee (!) and then, took care of him !
ReplyDeleteThey are doctors ! They are supposed to treat the person !
Go to an hospital in France or the Netherlands, if it's an emergency, they treat you and then, payment is coming (usually, it's free in France).
Just read this: slate.com/articles/business/dispatches_from_the_welfare_state/2014/01/french_socialized_medicine_vs_u_s_health_care_having_a_baby_in_paris_is.html
I thought the life of a human being was more important than money. Silly me.
ReplyDeleteEthics What are ethics...insert sarcasm!
ReplyDeletefor the record, you are more likely to go bankrupt in a US hospital than bleed to death. Not defending the US medical situation, but it's not like you are going to die from a bullet wound to the foot. More likely to go into debt for $20k than bleeding to death in a US hospital
ReplyDeleteTo hell with all these attempts to mend the existing business of healthcare in this country. These ideas for HSAs and even what Obama care ended up becoming are just beating a dead horse (or they would be, if they weren't demanding that the horse pay for it beforehand). It's all trying to fix a system that is based on a fundamentally flawed idea, and that is what needs to change. The primary goal of health care, above absolutely everything else, is to care for people's health, not to make a profit. Trying to integrate healthcare in a capitalist economy does not work at the base level assertion. We need fully socialized medicine.
ReplyDeleteTo implement that, Brad D you must tame the profiteering in the provider and drug industries by standardizing costs, both categorically and geographically.
ReplyDeleteif you`re walking down the street and come across someone who needs medical help and do nothing to help them you can be imprisoned for facilitating a death. but if you can`t pay a hospital they won`t treat you and let you die. first, do no harm. not in this country. if you can`t pay, you don`t get treated.
ReplyDeleteThat's weird, because every time I show up at my HMO, they can't accurately tell me the charges for even a co-pay + doctor writing notes in my file, forget about any lab work or scans.
ReplyDeleteComing to America soon..
ReplyDeleteSome doctors do this already, but this will happen everywhere next year..
a guy goes to the Dr.` office for his appointment. he walks up to the receptionists and she tells him "if you`re paying cash you can go right in. if you`ve got private insurance there`ll be a 45 minute wait. and if you`re on an HMO i`m the Doctor".
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