Health Care Pricing Estimates Are Bullshit

SOURCE: Mitigate Partners, LLC | Employee Benefits Consulting

Somehow, hospitals and insurers continue to get away with only providing estimates and not actual prices for their services and procedures. This allows our healthcare system to remain rigged for their profit and to the detriment and demise of patients, families, communities, tax payers, unions, employers, and municipalities across the country.

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How to Fix Rural Healthcare: LEAVE US ALONE.

“I left our CAH almost 8 years ago and started a Direct Primary Care clinic. It operates purely in the free-market economy and is thriving. Small regional hospitals are now coming around to my way of thinking and are now beginning to bundle things like radiology studies, and surgery, etc. to compete with each other for cash business, and it’s making them money and saving patients money.  These hospitals have to find loopholes in the bureaucracy to do this (the government and the trillion-dollar insurance companies who control the elected officials in the shadows love the status quo and want prices to stay high).

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