We Want the Real Prices – Fat Joe
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Assembly Health Committee on AB1400 Single-Payer Calcare Passes.
This is the Assembly Health Committee with debate about AB1400 with Ash Kalra presenting the Bill and Ady Barken chiming in about Single-Payer Healthcare. The public comment sections is really interesting and loaded with arguments for and against AB1400. Also an outstanding part is with Assembly woman Aguilar. I learned so much from this and
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Shining a light on murky hospital markups
By: DAVID LAZARUS Ridiculous, seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system — and a key reason Americans pay more for treatment than anyone else in the world. But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital’s computer system
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Medical Debt Is Crushing Black Americans
Billing tactics are inflicting financial harm on patients—and sometimes health-care companies aren’t even aware of their own practices.
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She was billed $809 for a boot for her broken foot. Amazon charges $80
BY DAVID LAZARUSBUSINESS COLUMNIST NOV. 16, 2021 6 AM PT Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch recently broke her foot while horseback riding. She got treated at a UCLA-affiliated orthopedic facility in Thousand Oaks and has no complaints about the quality of care. “My doctors were fantastic,” Drachkovitch told me. “This isn’t about them.” What this is about,
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Stranded by the pandemic, he had only travel insurance. It left him with a $38,000 bill
BY ARTHUR ALLEN KAISER HEALTH NEWS NOV. 16, 2021 5 AM PT Duy Hoa Tran, a retired Vietnamese schoolteacher, arrived in Los Angeles in February 2020 to visit his daughter and 2-month-old grandson. Two weeks later, the door closed behind him. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, Vietnam shut its borders. No commercial flights would be allowed
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The High Cost of Collusion: Why Health Care is So Expensive in the US
Why Health Care is So Expensive in the US “Why didn’t we know? To start with, unlike any other business in America, almost all of the financial transactions in healthcare are hidden from the providers as well as the patients. We order tests, procedures and medications to manage our patients, but very few doctors, or
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