01-14-2010, 10:14 PM
kanesa wrote:
I understand about the vagaries of health care billing but how would receiving an itemized bill change anything? And I have to repectfully disagree that people think health care is free just because their health insurance is paying for it.
Exactly. Not only that, but for many of us who are not covered by all-encompassing employer plans, we DO receive the scary itemized billings (and then info on what part of that the insurance company feels they will pay. I don't know how it would matter since those of us with insurance could do nothing about it anyway (since the insurer is the purchaser) and those of us without insurance cannot afford the several hundred thousand bucks it costs to deal with a major illness/surgery and hospitalization so it's irrelevant anyway whether if the bill is $250,000 or $450,000.