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Posted on 3/26/18 at 10:11 am to GeauxOCDP
quote:Medical supply? Are you kidding me? Medical supply companies have dropped prices over the last 15 years. Gloves, gauze, tape, specialty dressings, over the counters...all in the tank at single digit margins to acute cares. Acute cares that are all GPO driven to keep pricing even lower.
We can thank $150 Asprin and $500 ice packs for that one. Our insurance companies are paying it with a smile, raising your premiums with every increase in cost of care. Proper regulation of the medical supply and pharma industries is where our real hope is.
If you are talking devices and such, maybe, but the day to day supply business is cheaper than dirt.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 5:42 pm to tigerfoot
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Medical supply companies have dropped prices over the last 15 years. Gloves, gauze, tape, specialty dressings, over the counters...all in the tank at single digit margins to acute cares
That depends on the prices set by the sales rep. You can't buy directly from PSS, the prices listed are all set by your rep.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 5:55 pm to BallyHOO
$1,423/mo. for family coverage, with $2,000/$6,000 individual/family deductibles.
UnitedHealthcare plan through work (grandfathered individual BCBS plan no longer available, so we had to shift back to the work offering).
UnitedHealthcare plan through work (grandfathered individual BCBS plan no longer available, so we had to shift back to the work offering).
Posted on 3/26/18 at 5:58 pm to GetCocky11
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People should go ask their employer how much their full insurance premium is, and then come back and tell us.
I’m an employer I can tell you. Last year we paid $2384 a month for four people with a $4000 deductible.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 6:05 pm to BallyHOO
Small business owner checking in. $1600/month with $12,000 deductible for my new plan that put my kids pediatrician out of network.
Frick Obama. I called up the pediatrician and worked out a deal for visits and medical. Plus any surgery or catastrophic medicals are negotiable anyway so I'm uninsured. Oh did I mention frick Obama.
Frick Obama. I called up the pediatrician and worked out a deal for visits and medical. Plus any surgery or catastrophic medicals are negotiable anyway so I'm uninsured. Oh did I mention frick Obama.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 6:33 pm to Grievous Angel
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People pay thousands now thanks to Obamacare.
Dumbass , noone is even required to have health insurance anymore. You don’t have to pay shite.
By the way the money is not going to Obama’s bank acccount or even the federal government, it’s going to the health insurance companies.
trump cut the subsides most people qualified for
This post was edited on 3/26/18 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 3/26/18 at 6:35 pm to BallyHOO
I pay like $150/month through work. Also get free dental and eye
Posted on 3/26/18 at 7:07 pm to BallyHOO
$2200 a month with 6k in network deductible 12.5k out of network for family of 4. Thanks Obama!
This post was edited on 3/26/18 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 3/26/18 at 7:53 pm to GeauxOCDP
quote:The whities just want to blame the greatest black president in the history of mankind for this. But yes you are right, health insurance and the medical field is a scam for the most part.
We can thank $150 Asprin and $500 ice packs for that one. Our insurance companies are paying it with a smile, raising your premiums with every increase in cost of care. Proper regulation of the medical supply and pharma industries is where our real hope is. It literally costs over 10 times more to have a child here, than in most developed countries... It's quite the scam.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 7:56 pm to DawgGONIT
All of you dumbasses spending thousands a month need to make the ole lady work at the lunch room.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 9:27 pm to BallyHOO
Shopping around is one thing, but somehow health care costs need to be managed better.
If there was a true cost of health known to the public, it was billed with the mindset could a normal person pay for this out of pocket.
CBS did a great story tonight about how a company was swooping in and buying the management of small community hospitals and then funneling contracts to the small hospitals by taking advantage of something called rural care billing. Where one test that an urban hospital bill 200 dollars for such test while the rural hospital could bill for the same test in the thousands to insurance and Medicare.
CBS News
If there was a true cost of health known to the public, it was billed with the mindset could a normal person pay for this out of pocket.
CBS did a great story tonight about how a company was swooping in and buying the management of small community hospitals and then funneling contracts to the small hospitals by taking advantage of something called rural care billing. Where one test that an urban hospital bill 200 dollars for such test while the rural hospital could bill for the same test in the thousands to insurance and Medicare.
CBS News
Posted on 3/26/18 at 10:19 pm to 50_Tiger
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Posted on 3/26/18 at 10:51 pm to SamuelClemens
I am very familiar with PSS. And we are not talking about them. I worked for them for a dozen years until a year after the MCK buy. Out and the retention bonuses stopped.
I am more talking about acute side.
Even if PSS is selling in a acct at 35% or so it isn’t really some huge money grab that drives up Healthcare costs
I am more talking about acute side.
Even if PSS is selling in a acct at 35% or so it isn’t really some huge money grab that drives up Healthcare costs
Posted on 3/26/18 at 10:56 pm to 6R12
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Thanks Obuma. Used to be $800 per month, 4800 deduct about 10 years ago.
Premiums were going up around 10% per year even before the ACA. Plus the whole fact of insurance companies having to now cover pre-existing conditions is naturally going to raise rates. But what's the point of having it if you can get cancer one year and the next year they can disqualify you from coverage? Healthcare in America has been very convoluted during the last 20 years. Plenty of blame to go around even way before "Obamacare".
Posted on 3/26/18 at 10:59 pm to BallyHOO
650
1500 Ded on a rated HDHPso I can put in a HSA
Also, MD Anderson is in network.
1500 Ded on a rated HDHPso I can put in a HSA
Also, MD Anderson is in network.
Posted on 3/26/18 at 11:01 pm to whodidthat
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But what's the point of having it if you can get cancer one year and the next year they can disqualify you from coverage?
Pre existing conditions were only a problem for those who lapsed their coverage.
They didn’t cut people off saying their cancer was now prexisting
Posted on 3/27/18 at 10:41 am to Volvagia
I wonder if all the smarties defending Obumba and the ACA were paying for healthcare before 2010. Healthcare was not great before then, but compared to now it was awesome. And yes, it was a clear result of the ACA.
Probably still on mommy and daddy's coverage.
Probably still on mommy and daddy's coverage.
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