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To: Lane3 who wrote (225169)	2/7/2022 12:57:25 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 355979

You really can’t compare health care today with fifty years ago. Fifty years ago we had no treatments for many conditions like cancers, heart failure, diabetes, etc. the things that killed most people. People paid out of pocket because they could. A person having surgery could usually write a check for it as they left the hospital. In fact, that, onky 29 years before that, it was universal. It was, of course, Medicare and Medicaid that drove up the cost of healthcare. And that continue to do so today. I had a telenhealth appointment with my doctor a month or two ago, fifteen minutes for him to prescribe some meds for walking pneumonia. Got the Eob last week and he had billed Medicare $685 for it. Of course, it didn’t matter, because it was code adjusted to $95. But it is a clear effort to manipulate the RBRVS reimbursement in future years. No other reason to do it. Otoh, a doc pulling $500 and hour when other pros bet as much or more, you really can’t blamed them for trying. We saw during ACA negotiations there is no chance of getting any reasonable resolution to health care in our lifetimes. I cannot imagine what I’d be paying, as a self employed person, today. $3k/month for just me? In the end there can be no self employment I guess.