Is this that socialist health care system Americans are supposed to want to pay $4 trillion per year for?
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I can add on to this, as I used to work for a small player in the insurance game. The big players, your BCBS and your UHC and your Aetna -- they have price agreements with hospitals that are set in stone and you can't see them. Everyone else gets "the bullshit."
Examples of "the bullshit" - X-Rays for three or four thousand dollars (anything over a couple hundred should be a crime), Observation (literally sitting alone in a room) for $2,000 per hour, overnight hospital stays for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If you're outside those networks (where they pay literally pennies on the dollar if not less) then the hospital will try to nail you to the wall. Franciscan hospitals out of Indianapolis are the WORST. It's a non-profit Catholic hospital that will demand full payment on admission if you're outside of their cartel.
I'm starting to wonder when clinics with open source tech are open. Almost everything can be run on a phone now, and most of it has an open source equivalent. Most techs go through a few months of training for a single thing. Having a full course study on everything and then opening up a clinic would destroy the fake industry very fast. All they have is officialdom, and that was destroyed by Covid.
I had to laugh at this expression.
What do they do with the millions they collect for services? Buy more art for the Vatican? Settle child-rape cases out of court? Pay for moving pedo priests around the country? Stockpile sacramental wine and wafers?