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A dose o' reality for Penske
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I've gone through this exercise with someone earlier this year who had a kidney stone on a Sunday in a hospital where he had no coverage. $8,000.
I'm sympathetic to the individual stories, and I agree that it's a problem. I think that comprehensive coverage is the solution, but I do not know how to get there, but saying that there's no regulation in healthcare is patently ridiculous.
In the same way where you have no bargaining power with the individal physician for setting usual and customary rates, the physician generally has little or to no bargaining power with the insurance companies in setting forth percentages of RBRVS.
BUT, last I checked, healthcare was still a) not a right (except for EMTALA, but you still will have to pay something), and b) part of the capitalist economy. One of those things will have to change in order for there to be meaningful changes in the healthcare arena.
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Make it fully market based except for the social safety net portion.
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