Both hospitals and pharma are only part of the problem. Yes these things shouldn’t be for-profit but there are costs to running healthcare. It should be regulated more, but at least they are doing some good providing lifesaving treatments.
Insurance companies are nothing but parasitic. You should not be mad that your hospital is trying to bill you, you should be upset that insurance is trying to get out of payment.
Ehhhh. Hospitals also shouldn't be charging exorbitant prices for things, for example what is one Tylenol $11?? Imagine when you need something more than a Tylenol lol. Someone with something like appendicitis can be hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars of bills. It's wildly inappropriate, insurance or not.
100 percent agree. I tried to bring my own Tylenol and they refused to let me use it for my pregnant wife. I just don’t know 1. How much the Tylenols are what is causing a 100k bill. And 2. If it is just pharmaceutical then both pharma and hospitals split the blame there. But also how do they come up with the 11 dollar cost? I think it gets complicated with hospitals because they also lose money a lot providing free services . Whereas to me, insurance is more clear target. They are in the business of risk but doesn’t have a fair model
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u/BitFiesty 12d ago
Both hospitals and pharma are only part of the problem. Yes these things shouldn’t be for-profit but there are costs to running healthcare. It should be regulated more, but at least they are doing some good providing lifesaving treatments.
Insurance companies are nothing but parasitic. You should not be mad that your hospital is trying to bill you, you should be upset that insurance is trying to get out of payment.