Haven't been to see my reg doctor in about 2 yrs, but before that, when I did go, nurse & doc kept trying to get me to do procedures that the insurance wanted me to get done because of my age & because I haven't had these done yet or not in many many years. I just say no, I don't want to schedule an appt for them, and they would get a bit annoyed with me. The reason I know it was the insurance is because the nurse was clicking everything in on the computer and it must have popped up on the screen to ask me about getting a procedure done, and when I said no to the procedure, she got a bit upset and let it slip that the insurance company wants me to get it done. I still said no. One time the nurse scheduled an appt with a specialty doctor without my permission. When that other docs office called me to let me know of appt, I told the receptionist to cancel the appt because I didn't ask for it.
The reason why WE pay outrageous fees, is because the "poor folk" (many on welfare or here illegally) are "entitled" to get their medical care for free. Those costs are then passed onto everyone else.
That's part of their excuse... Or at least that is what they force us to deduce in order to be at eachother's throats. The truth is much more sinister.
Bring it all the way back to the start.
If the charges were fair and not attempted rape, everyone would be able to afford the care
Then we wouldn't be paying for anyone aside from ourselves.
I'll go out on a limb and just say it: all insurance is money laundering.
When one select group abuses the system for free (ie uses Ambulance as a Taxi system, ER as primary care, fraudulent identities, rushes across the border for medical care, etc) - the hospital will write off what they can, pass what they can to the taxpayers and/or go bankrupt
Google “hospital bankruptcies border town” and you will see articles about Arizona, California, Texas and more going bankrupt. This denies US citizens access to medial care WE NEED and WE PAY for
So hospitals do the only thing they can. When Fed laws DEMAND they provide services, and the recipients refuse to pay - we all get screwed. So they raise the rates for those who can and will pay
For example, walk into the maternity ward of your choice; see how many migrant babies are there; then realize YOU paid for all costs of their birth, will pay all pediatric costs and they will likely have kids before they are out of pediatric care themselves
Don't even get me started!
I've complained about this very thing for as long as I can remember.
I asked my doctor, how are you setting the prices? It makes no sense
It's another slush fund. Insurance needs their cut, so they up it to an ungodly amount so both sides make out.
Barring the patient, of course.
And don’t get me started about insurance companies making billions off the misfortune of keeping us all sick!!! The whole system needs to be trashed.
Haven't been to see my reg doctor in about 2 yrs, but before that, when I did go, nurse & doc kept trying to get me to do procedures that the insurance wanted me to get done because of my age & because I haven't had these done yet or not in many many years. I just say no, I don't want to schedule an appt for them, and they would get a bit annoyed with me. The reason I know it was the insurance is because the nurse was clicking everything in on the computer and it must have popped up on the screen to ask me about getting a procedure done, and when I said no to the procedure, she got a bit upset and let it slip that the insurance company wants me to get it done. I still said no. One time the nurse scheduled an appt with a specialty doctor without my permission. When that other docs office called me to let me know of appt, I told the receptionist to cancel the appt because I didn't ask for it.
The reason why WE pay outrageous fees, is because the "poor folk" (many on welfare or here illegally) are "entitled" to get their medical care for free. Those costs are then passed onto everyone else.
That's part of their excuse... Or at least that is what they force us to deduce in order to be at eachother's throats. The truth is much more sinister.
Bring it all the way back to the start.
If the charges were fair and not attempted rape, everyone would be able to afford the care
Then we wouldn't be paying for anyone aside from ourselves.
I'll go out on a limb and just say it: all insurance is money laundering.
When one select group abuses the system for free (ie uses Ambulance as a Taxi system, ER as primary care, fraudulent identities, rushes across the border for medical care, etc) - the hospital will write off what they can, pass what they can to the taxpayers and/or go bankrupt
Google “hospital bankruptcies border town” and you will see articles about Arizona, California, Texas and more going bankrupt. This denies US citizens access to medial care WE NEED and WE PAY for
So hospitals do the only thing they can. When Fed laws DEMAND they provide services, and the recipients refuse to pay - we all get screwed. So they raise the rates for those who can and will pay
For example, walk into the maternity ward of your choice; see how many migrant babies are there; then realize YOU paid for all costs of their birth, will pay all pediatric costs and they will likely have kids before they are out of pediatric care themselves
I know all that. But the cost is 100% manufactured for massive profit without any of that.
It only escalates further when you factor in what you just explained.