Friday Funny: Oh, The Irony!
Someone doesn’t like competition (I am writing this while using the high-pitched Adam Sandler voice).
TGIF
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
It’s all about taxpayer money, which attracted the medical corporatists, who work for shareholders, not patients, who want to squeeze every penny out of the system for themselves, so they engage in “Strategic Sourcing”–look it up–and physicians, who have extensive training, are shoved out to the greatest extent possible, replaced by nurse anesthetists, who are now crying because there may be an even cheaper way to do it by replacing THEM, and at some time, you will be a patient, and then it will become clearer, but by then it will be too late, too late, to shove the government OUT of medical care, because medical care is NOT A PROPER FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT, but it is an EXCELLENT VOTE-BUYING TOOL, first for LBJ and then for so many others, when you can get older folks to vote for you, because they want others to pay their bills of course, and they vote more than the young ones, who will then be forced to pay your medical bills through a government Ponzi scheme, and so on, and so on, and so on…
Nonetheless the competition has not led to lower prices. I have never understood the concept of an exclusive contract given by a hospital or facility to an anesthesia group. The hospital signs a contract with the insurance company. But the anesthesia group refuses to sign the contract with the insurance company. Thus they can balance bill and name their price. That would be like building a house and signing a contract with your contractor. The contractor hires subcontractors. After you’re done building and paying the contractor you start getting additional bills from the subcontractor saying they didn’t have a contract with you. It makes no sense.