>>9859772
This is also not a good solution. One of the largest problems with hospitals is the lack of repayment. They are legally forced to give healthcare (not insurance). This is not China, there are rules here. I agree with this law.
BUT, due to that, and mainly (in the data I rock with), it's minorities mainly, simply do not pay. Only 30% of hospital bills are actually paid. So those inflated costs you see? You're covering for the other 7 people that never paid.
Now, everyone knows that if you TALK to your doctor / hospital / whatever, and ask for a cash selfpay rate, they're be more than happy to work with you, and generally for way less money than you'd think. That's just the nature of the beast, way easier to just get a little cash from you then write off the difference, than to bill someone for 2 years and deal with collections to just never get paid.
Because, there are two types of write offs. Your cash pay or people that simply can't afford the cost of care, can be written off as charity care. Super easy to do, great for tax time, and I generally comped chemo drugs all the time because Medicare would not pay for them ((I'll get to that later, but Tl;Dr: Medicare refusing shit and not having someone like me means you're going to die. Medicare is death panels IRL))
The other type of writeoff is bad debt, AKA what was supposed to be collected and wasn't. That's some bad ju-ju, because like you have to deal with collections and shit. Not fun news.
The best solution for this issue would be to ensure that ALL losses can be written off and tax deducted. That would help on the HOSPITAL end with having to charge rape prices to keep the lights on.
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>>9859882
Exactly. You can calculate out the cost/risk matrix, and just act as a death panel in anything but name. Patient is supposedly healthy but costs too much money? Probably a hypochondriac. Drop them.
Patient is really sick and expensive? Fucking up your kickback from the government? You don't have to tell them to go away, but you definitely don't want to remind them that they haven't been to your in network doctor this year. I'm sure they've found someone else, don't worry about them.
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>>9859859
I'm not obese, still working on the overweight part. Stop saying (((Your)))
>Tax payers should not have to pay to keep non-human fats alive.
agreed.
>should be banned
Disagree heavily.