Republican health Care Plan. FINALLY!

[FBAnder]

How to negotiate your medical bills

 

[B_talltpaguy]

^Not exactly the sort of policy someone can count on.

In my extensive personal experience, very few doctors will accept an appreciable discount. Some doctors will work with you on a payment schedule (but screw your credit rating until you're paid off), but most won't do a thing until you're sooo far past due, that they now figure you're never going to pay, so they'll take a 'settlement' (and screw your credit rating).

Mind you, I speak from extensive personal experience, due to a nasty car wreck I was in about a decade ago, that was never cleared off my record until I finally accepted reality and declared bankruptcy. And I had my wife at the time helping me, who was a medical bill collections supervisor for Tenet Healthcare, and my best friend, who was a billing auditor for the same company. (now he's a manager of many auditors for a company that does contract work for the FL state Medicaid program)

 

[Bbucko]

As always, Cibo Matto got there first.

 

[slurper_la]

How to negotiate your medical bills

The art of negotiation is a finely tuned skill but something about this story does not ring true.

Faced with medical bills of $50,000 per year for his daughter Mr. Martinez takes pride and comfort in negotiating a 25% discount from doctors.

Ok, so that leaves a pending annual debt of $37,500 for one daughter. What about the four other children, his wife and himself?

Considering the median, annual salary earnings in the US is $40,000 how does anyone expect this message to sound a call of relief for the masses suffering under crippling medical debt?

 

[deleted15807]

A plan is shaping up should they win in November:

Health Insurers Pour Money into GOP Campaigns, Hoping to Limit New Regulations

• "The industry would love to have a Republican Congress," said Wendell Potter, a former executive at Cigna Corp., one of the country's biggest insurers. "They were very, very successful during the years of Republican domination in Washington."

Essentially they WANT all the millions of new customers as required by the law BUT they don't want all the other features that might cap the amount of raping they could do. So the mantra of 'repeal and replace' is actually repeal the bad stuff industry doesn't like and replace it with stuff industry likes.

• Insurers in the past have been able to count on the GOP, which often helped shape the market to the industry's specifications.