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   by 378fho 7y ago

   It's simple fraud in many cases. Patient has a 20% copay. The provider bills $100,000. The provider "pays" $80,000. The patient pays $20,000. Provider then pays a $70k kickback disguised as a discount on other charges, fees f
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   by 378fho 7y ago

   > Unless you're claiming that hospitals only gouge some tiny subset of people and are benevolently generous to everyone else, that number is going to be much closer to 100% than 0.1%. Actually, yes. Doctors and hospitals have relati
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   by 378fho 7y ago

   The hullabaloo over "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" goes a long way to explaining how health-care used to work in the US. Most simply it was a free market and free markets work. In more detail: Independent doct