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Janet Wilder > wrote in
b.com:

> On 5/24/2014 3:04 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> But I do blame the medical
>> industry and their massive profit margins and greed for part of that.
>> What excuse is there to quintuple lab costs overnight?

>
> What I have,personally, seen is that the cost for uninsured people is
> outrageous because the amount paid for the same procedures by
> insurance companies is very low. Medical facilities believe they can
> make up some of their profit by charging the uninsured many times more
> than what they get from insurance companies.
>
> I was not on Medicare when I got my first cancer in 2006 and my
> insurance company, though they paid for a good deal of the expenses,
> did not have a contract with the hospital I was using. The charges by
> the hospital were often 8 to 10 times higher to an "uninsured" (if the
> insurance didn't have a contract with them, you were uninsured)
> person.
>
> Even with insurance paying a good portion of the costs, my bills were
> over $50,000.


Why didn't you check beforehand and select an in-network hospital?

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