This is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s amazing our healthcare system works at all. Just wait a few more years when all of healthcare in the US is under a dozen or so organizations.
I worked for a plastic surgeon doing so home improvement/handyman BS at his house and had some candid talks about medical billing. he told me this long ago. he would tell me that he grossed about 3.5mil a year but only got paid for enough to make 2mil. I asked if he was upset about the lost 1.5, and he told me no, because it was a write off, so he ended up paying very little in taxes. same thing goes on with hospitals, so never feel bad about unpaid medical bills. the bills are fraudulently high.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s amazing our healthcare system works at all. Just wait a few more years when all of healthcare in the US is under a dozen or so organizations.
Root cause = insurance companies
I worked for a plastic surgeon doing so home improvement/handyman BS at his house and had some candid talks about medical billing. he told me this long ago. he would tell me that he grossed about 3.5mil a year but only got paid for enough to make 2mil. I asked if he was upset about the lost 1.5, and he told me no, because it was a write off, so he ended up paying very little in taxes. same thing goes on with hospitals, so never feel bad about unpaid medical bills. the bills are fraudulently high.