Forum Post: Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences
Posted 10 years ago on May 8, 2013, 10:17 a.m. EST by BradB
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from Washington, DC
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When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690.
Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive federal database of national health care costs made public on Wednesday.
more... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html
On for profit greed -
Behind the Disparities of Hospital Billing
In compliment -
Um @myriadgenetics, are you really trying to patent MY genes? SERIOUSLY? By @ACLU. (via @Upworthy) http://www.upworthy.com/an-awful-corporation-does-something-so-cartoonishly-creepy-that-we-have-to-make-a-dr-evil-reference-4?g=2&c=upw1 Pls Consider
TWEET
that is too crazy... we need to start sue-ing the patent office
It is insanity - and suing the patent office might be a very good thing to do.
For profit assholes.
GREED THE #1 CAUSE OF DISEASE/DEATH/DESTRUCTION IN THE WORLD.
Medical is used as a weapon. Terrible bullies, attacking people when they are at their lowest.
The ill bent over a barrel to provide for - profits. That's Sick
And, the quality of medical is often frightful.
Part of the for profit process - minimal input/service ( time as well as material ) to keep overhead down and money to the pocket maximum. It is an unhealthy value system - so pretty much anathema to Health Care.
Simply outrageous! These days - 'Unregulated capitalism is out of control. Like a cancer, it has become "something evil or malignant that spreads destructively," with tumors growing in several once-healthy parts of the American body.' from - http://www.nationofchange.org/cancer-capitalism-1367852286 . Also see - http://www.nationofchange.org/blogs/maria-faini-and-dave-pogue/all-i-want-christmas-universal-health-care-1355245334 . Never Give Up On The 99%! Occupy The Important Issues! Solidarity.
you guys ready for single payer yet?
Tweet - share info on for profit abuse.
Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences http://huff.to/16W4BIC via @HuffPostBiz
One example of why "for profit" is against Universal Health Care.
Corporate War Of Aggression
the REAL GOOD thing about this ... is the new transparency delivered via the
Medicare Provider Charge Data
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/index.html