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[Pterion]

Holy shit, we have a resident moonlighting as a GAF mod? That's awesome.

I was reading this and I was thinking ''fuck yea, one of us is a mod''.

YEA!

 

[JayDubya]

This is why prices need to be upfront, and competitive, like with other services.

Keeping the costs indirect and hidden like this and just expecting the insurance company to haggle with them makes everything wonky.

Insurance also shouldn't be about the $74 ultrasound. It should be about the car crash and subsequent ICU visit you hope never happens.

 

[JGS]

OP, why didn't you bold this paragraph?

This doesn't mean much if the doctors were allowed to charge whatever they wanted. They were fined for questioning high fees too so Aetna was screwed no matter what in NJ at least.

Although I don't think the law should decide what prices should be, I do think that an insurance company should be allowed to pay what they want as well.

 

[Sharp]

My wife slipped in the bathroom about a month ago, dislocated her toe and got a pretty bad gash. Took her to an urgent care center where they took several x-rays to make sure it wasn't broken, relocated it, and sutured it back up.

Cost us around $400 total. I was actually surprised that it cost more or less what I was expecting it to. Thankful too that it wasn't outrageous since we don't have insurance.

Know everyone experiences are different, but the several times we've had to go to the urgent care/doctor they have been reasonable as far as cost goes and it really make me wonder why we should get insurance(besides something like a Catastrophic Care Plan) and just pay out of pocket when we do go to the doctor.

Man... if you don't have health insurance, you'd better hope that you never need any kind of expensive operation and/or drugs. That's all I've got to say about that.

 

[Barrett2]

S Class Mercedes don't pay for themselves.

 

[JGS]

Man... if you don't have health insurance, you'd better hope that you never need any kind of expensive operation and/or drugs. That's all I've got to say about that.

Urgent Treatment and E/R are different animals in the cost dept. Doctor visits>UTC>E/R except UTC will often tell you to go to the E/R.

Unless you have one of those [godawful] HDHP's the costs are manageable and negotiable payment wise, but UHC is still preferrable to me for the sake of easier care for poor folk and the assurance that healthcare gets paid for rather than tacked onto someone else's bill.

 

[reggieandTFE]

So will most people with a half-decent career.

What fantasy world do you live in? The Median American family pulls in <50,000 a year. How are they going to become millionaires?

 

[bionic77]

Dedicated to making $$

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Weirdly enough in my experience the best doctors I have been around usually charge the least. It sucks that a shitty doc is paid the same (per procedure) or sometimes more as a great one.

To be fair though to the docs a lot of patients are a huge pain in the ass and the insurance billing system would give anyone a headache...

 

[Adam Blade]

Good. They need to stick it to doctors who by and large are a bunch of crooks. Now homeopaths on the other hand, they do no harm and and are so much more reliable than those supposedly trained to be medical "professionals."