This is so disturbing.
I am going public to reveal the astonishing truth. There is a simple way to instantly, with ease, end our nation’s health cost misery!
When the founder of a Miami area hospital, who was a longtime friend and client died, I became interim president. The insider’s view of the healthcare system is enough to make anyone sick.
Healthcare is the only industry exempt from the rigors of the U.S. free market system. Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. It is a predatory system that is built on the destruction of free market economics through political influence.
Value and market price are entirely irrelevant concepts. Patients who are out of network or uninsured are routinely charged 10X more than “normal” rates. This is fraud in any business – except health care.
https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2016/06/22/former-hospital-president-skyrocketing-healthcare-costs-are-caused-political-corruption
For-profit healthcare is a form of moral depravity and the insurance industry is essentially a RICO enterprise.
There's a reason every State in the Union has an insurance commissioner or the equivalent. Ask yourself why. Could it be because the industry is so routinely corrupt?
Read the whole article, it's only a few more paragraphs.
I am going public to reveal the astonishing truth. There is a simple way to instantly, with ease, end our nation’s health cost misery!
When the founder of a Miami area hospital, who was a longtime friend and client died, I became interim president. The insider’s view of the healthcare system is enough to make anyone sick.
Healthcare is the only industry exempt from the rigors of the U.S. free market system. Ask the price of any healthcare service and you will always receive the same answer: “What insurance do you have?” Billing is determined by how much can be extracted from each patient on a case by case basis. It is a predatory system that is built on the destruction of free market economics through political influence.
Value and market price are entirely irrelevant concepts. Patients who are out of network or uninsured are routinely charged 10X more than “normal” rates. This is fraud in any business – except health care.
https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2016/06/22/former-hospital-president-skyrocketing-healthcare-costs-are-caused-political-corruption
For-profit healthcare is a form of moral depravity and the insurance industry is essentially a RICO enterprise.
There's a reason every State in the Union has an insurance commissioner or the equivalent. Ask yourself why. Could it be because the industry is so routinely corrupt?
Read the whole article, it's only a few more paragraphs.