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Originally posted by Doc T
Not paying via insurance/HMOs/etc would not work. Often the hospital bill is in excess of tens of thousands of dollars... geez, some of my patients reach the multi hundreds of thousands of dollar bills...you cannot ask someone to pay that out of pocket and wait for insurance to reimburse.
As for losing business, they do...on the physician side. Physicians band together (rare but true) and stop offering coverage to a specific insurer until they reimburse at a more reasonable rate.
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Fair point, but it still seems to me that you need more pressure on insurance companies. They get away with way too much, and patients get screwed because the best doctors don't take the coverage you have and you have a race to the bottom where patients are forced to accept lower quality care because of decisions made by their employers.
I will give this some more thought.