Healthcare Reform

This is amazing to me.  


I think I explained on here a situation we have with our 26 year old daughter.  She all of a sudden received notice from a collection agency that she is in default on a medical bill.  At the time, she was on our insurance.  However, we can not call the hospital/clinic to get any information because we are not the patient.  She calls and they just give her the run around claiming they are looking into it.  Meanwhile, our insurance company has never been billed or notified of the bill.  And....the collection agency keeps calling.  Reading this, I can't imagine dealing with this when the patient is a 4 year old.   :facepalm:

 
BigRedBuster said:
This is amazing to me.  


I think I explained on here a situation we have with our 26 year old daughter.  She all of a sudden received notice from a collection agency that she is in default on a medical bill.  At the time, she was on our insurance.  However, we can not call the hospital/clinic to get any information because we are not the patient.  She calls and they just give her the run around claiming they are looking into it.  Meanwhile, our insurance company has never been billed or notified of the bill.  And....the collection agency keeps calling.  Reading this, I can't imagine dealing with this when the patient is a 4 year old.   :facepalm:
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What a crazy story with that 4 yr old.  If that’s how the company wanted to play it, why not just say they can’t collect as a minor can’t legally be held to the paperwork stating they are liable for the bill.  
Wonder if  that will move the needle any. 

 
Sounds good.  Hopefully they will turn their attention to the hospital costs soon that account for the vast majority of health care spending. 

 
This will be an interesting case to follow what facts actually come out.   Is it a case of whistleblower retaliation, or did the person actually do something illegal besides exposing the Hospital.  
 


 
Seasoned observers are aware that the Affordable Care Act was heavily watered down from a genuinely affordable Single Payer model to appease Republicans, who fought it anyway, including at the state level where a proper buy in would have helped the economics. Some of Biden's smaller victories -- shown in this thread -- weren't as celebrated as perhaps they should have been. The free market, of course, is happy to make illogical amounts of money without regulation or a powerful entity negotiating prices.

If we're opening the affordable health care crisis back up, what are the prevailing new solutions? I honestly haven't heard a peep. 

If Sunny and Mike Cote and you are keen to point to the rest of the world's more affordable health care, can we talk about how that works? 

 
Seasoned observers would probably notice that  the US system does need some tweeks but those seasoned observers also knew that the “just do something and pass the unaffordable care act” wasn’t a solution to the issues with our healthcare system.  

 
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