In a country where citizens resort to crowdfunding to pay for their medical bills and politicians can’t agree on the right kind of health care system, a pair of doctors decided that enough was enough.
In a country where citizens resort to crowdfunding to pay for their medical bills and politicians can’t agree on the right kind of health care system, a pair of doctors decided that enough was enough.
Smith said that their prices have more-or-less stayed the same over the last 20 years, with the exception being the three times that he lowered certain prices. ‘The mainstream in health care is completely unplugged’Health care spending has increased nearly 6-fold on a per capita basis over the last 40 years when adjusted for inflation, according to the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker, going from about $1,800 In 1970 to about $10,740 in 2017.
“Different hospitals and providers charge different amounts for the same service,” Ron E. Peck, senior vice president and general counsel for the Phia Group, told Yahoo Finance. “And even the same provider charges different amounts for the same service, depending on who the payer is, the plan, the insurance, whatever. And that’s before the discount is applied.”
‘The disaster … is the handiwork of Uncle Sam’Smith blamed the federal government for the nation’s healthcare woes.
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