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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (4181)	2/2/2008 6:44:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Do you feel good about that? I would feel bad if the uninsured were paying five times the insured rate. I just don't know that that's so. I have no experience with that and you have made the assertion but offered no evidence. I'm a skeptic because it just doesn't make sense that it would be so. If the provider is providing MRIs to insured patients for three hundred something, then he can't be losing money on that. He might not be making much, but he's not losing money. So charging five time that to anyone would be a serious rip-off, even if the patient were really rich. With my example, the provider is getting about half his asking price, which seems more consistent with normal retail markups and their associated discounts. It's not out of line from what I would expect. And, for the record, I live in a high cost area. So, 1) there's something "off" about your provider's asking price and 2) we have no evidence that anyone has ever paid it. 3) If anyone has, I wonder whether he needed to or just didn't know how to get a better deal.

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