buh buh buh buh billion$!

[Fritz]

Americans suffer when health insurers place profits over people

[ka jowct]

One of my clients was just telling me that their doctor wanted to prescribe a different med for RA. Cost: $7000 per month. It was negotiated down to a mere $2000 per month, which is still unaffordable. We have an illness-exploitation system, not a healthcare system.

[Fritz]

speaking of "negotiating".

some years ago I was without HI and ended up in the ER for something minor.
The bill was insane. But I was "allowed" to pay the HI "negotiated" bill instead of the "real" bill. The difference was insane.
And today, when I see my EoBs from what was billed and what was "negotiated". Insane.
It's nice that the big hospital systems can negotiate.

When my spouse was still in practice as a PT, Oxford sent her a note one day, no warning, they had "negotiated" her visit fee to $50.
With that she had to pay the therapist, a PTA, rent, lights, bookkeeper, acct, blah, blah, blah. She closed because all the hospital systems nearby, were opening their own PT clinics and pay new grads bupkis.

"negotiated" to closing. We see it in all the local private pracs the last ten years.

[Fritz]

and this bs.

"At Northwell Health, our physicians are raising the standard of health care for the people we serve. We rely on community support to give hope to our patients."

[gabester]

ka jowct wrote:
We have an illness-exploitation capitalist system, not a healthcare system.

FTFY. ;-)

FWIW I do not think the two systems are at all reconcilable.

[mrbigstuff]

gabester wrote:
[quote=ka jowct]
We have an illness-exploitation capitalist system, not a healthcare system.

FTFY. ;-)

FWIW I do not think the two systems are at all reconcilable.
Exactly

[freeradical]

My Mom gets Enbrel for free. My sister got in touch with the company that makes it and plead poverty. She said it wasn't hard...

It even gets shipped to her for free in cold packages.