Re: 10 ways to avoid outrageous hospital overcharges

[Guest guest]

The thing that is really obscene is their practice of charging the

uninsured more, sometimes much much more, for the same procedure that

insured people pay less for.

In other words, those who are the least able to pay subsidize those

who have insurance.

Just like Americans subsidize pharmaceutical research for drug

corporations with obscene prices that then turn around and sell all

over the world for less..

[Guest guest]

More than 50% of all consumer bankruptcies are now caused by

unexpected illnesses, in many cases by charges by hospitals to people

who thought they were insured or who lost their jobs and insurance

because they got sick.

It seems incredibly stupid to tie medical insurance to employment for

that reason. Its not like this almost anywhere else in the developed

world.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???

[Guest guest]

It seems to me as if we are returning to a sort of new feudal system,

where people will be enslaved by these powerful entities that hold the

power of life or death over us..

This isn't the future that our founding fathers envisioned for America.