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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cogito who wrote (130306)2/6/2010 2:03:09 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541970
 
I got one bill from Cedars Sinai for a two day hospital stay. The bill was 9,800-something. The discounted rate billed to insurance was a little over 1,000. I could look up the exact numbers. But there you are. Anyone paying cash would have to pay nearly ten grand.

Those kinds of discounts make no sense to me, except from the perspective of profit. Not just profit for the insurance company, but profit for the entire supply chain leading to the patient. Individuals have absolutely no power vis a vis the medical sector. Or the insurance companies, for that matter.

I can't understand why those kinds of things aren't in themselves perfectly good arguments for single payer plans. Certainly for giving individuals the ability to join large plans that aren't connected to employment.
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