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75% Reduction in Health Care Costs ??

pawz
pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club
I'm all in for REAL market efficiency.

Hondo of course will fight this tooth and nail because the Health Insurance lobby is the one buttering his bread to spam our bored above all else else. See Obamacare threads. #aclockworkshill #rightontim #lapdog #Obamacarewarrior #heswiththem


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-can-slash-health-care-costs-75-with-2-fundamental-changes-and-without-medicare-for-all-2019-08-15








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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    HSA's are the way to go. Have people fund their healthcare needs through a payroll savings plan much like SS.
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Right now I’d settle for price tags.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.

    Pathetic

    This guys shills for Obamacare and suddenly questions numbers
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    Car accidents are the cause of expensive health care
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.

    Pathetic

    This guys shills for Obamacare and suddenly questions numbers
    Obamacare was mostly awful. I've stated that many times. I did argue, however, with idiots like you that spout bullshit about it that's not true.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.

    Pathetic

    This guys shills for Obamacare and suddenly questions numbers
    Obamacare was mostly awful. I've stated that many times. I did argue, however, with idiots like you that spout bullshit about it that's not true.
    You still shill for it and now are shilling for single payer

    Bullshit about it that's not true? Saving 2500? Keeping your doctor?

    Maybe take the rest of the day off and kill yourself

  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    Did Obama do a single positive thing ever?
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.

    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.

    Pathetic

    This guys shills for Obamacare and suddenly questions numbers
    Obamacare was mostly awful. I've stated that many times. I did argue, however, with idiots like you that spout bullshit about it that's not true.
    I was right. You're still a pathological lying #clockworkshill.

    You have ZERO credibility. You should kill yourself to gain an ounce back.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club

    Did Obama do a single positive thing ever?

    I'm willing to give credit on pre-existing conditions.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    pawz said:

    Did Obama do a single positive thing ever?

    I'm willing to give credit on pre-existing conditions.
    What about forcing the insurance industry to advertise their prices on an online exchange?
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.

    Pathetic

    This guys shills for Obamacare and suddenly questions numbers
    Yeah, there's no way to pick what MRI or ambulance service you choose to use. Got to go with whichever service is provided because the hospital needs you right now.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    Did Obama do a single positive thing ever?

    I'm willing to give credit on pre-existing conditions.
    What about forcing the insurance industry to advertise their prices on an online exchange?
    As always your avoiding the advertising of prices by the health care PROVIDER.

    #aclockworkshill #rightontim #lapdog #Obamacarewarrior
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    pawz said:

    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    Did Obama do a single positive thing ever?

    I'm willing to give credit on pre-existing conditions.
    What about forcing the insurance industry to advertise their prices on an online exchange?
    As always your avoiding the advertising of prices by the health care PROVIDER.

    #aclockworkshill #rightontim #lapdog #Obamacarewarrior
    But we don't have that right now. I'm talking about something positive Obamacare gave.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,559
    edited November 2019
    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.



    Emergency services are not "a lot" of the cost. "A lot" of the cost with healthcare is due to obesity, heart disease, cancer, prescription drugs, and aging.

    If emergency services caused by things like car accidents is the main driver, then let's ban cars. You're for banning everything else.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.



    Emergency services are not "a lot" of the cost. "A lot" of the cost with healthcare is due to obesity, heart disease, cancer, prescription drugs, and aging.

    If emergency services caused by things like car accidents is the main driver, then let's ban cars. You're for banning everything else.
    And those diseases you talk about, a lot of them turn into emergency type services such as a stroke. If you have a stroke or heart attack, do you have time to pick the cheapest provider? What about kidney stones? I'm not just talking car accidents. Come on man. Even cancer at times has emergency type procedures where you can't shop your care.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,559
    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.



    Emergency services are not "a lot" of the cost. "A lot" of the cost with healthcare is due to obesity, heart disease, cancer, prescription drugs, and aging.

    If emergency services caused by things like car accidents is the main driver, then let's ban cars. You're for banning everything else.
    And those diseases you talk about, a lot of them turn into emergency type services such as a stroke. If you have a stroke or heart attack, do you have time to pick the cheapest provider? What about kidney stones? I'm not just talking car accidents. Come on man. Even cancer at times has emergency type procedures where you can't shop your care.
    You honestly think the single emergency visit is more expensive than years of prescription drugs, check ups, and scheduled procedures that came before that emergency. Not to mention the years of prescription drugs, check ups, and scheduled procedures that will follow if the poor sap happens to survive?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.



    Emergency services are not "a lot" of the cost. "A lot" of the cost with healthcare is due to obesity, heart disease, cancer, prescription drugs, and aging.

    If emergency services caused by things like car accidents is the main driver, then let's ban cars. You're for banning everything else.
    And those diseases you talk about, a lot of them turn into emergency type services such as a stroke. If you have a stroke or heart attack, do you have time to pick the cheapest provider? What about kidney stones? I'm not just talking car accidents. Come on man. Even cancer at times has emergency type procedures where you can't shop your care.
    Stop





    Shilling


    Hondo hates the idea because it's free market based and would actually work


    Single payer won't
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    I think the 75% thing is bullshit. Price tags are hard because so many procedures are needed right now. The market for elective stuff is there already. Cancer treatments I guess you could shop around. But a lot of the costs are from accidents and such where they need you in a hospital right now. You can't pick which ambulance, surgeon, etc. MRIs and other none emergency type stuff you could do. Prescription drugs you can look at prices but the stuff people actually need, like cancer drugs, are ridiculous expensive regardless.

    Like I said, it will work in some ways but not to the tune of 75%.



    Emergency services are not "a lot" of the cost. "A lot" of the cost with healthcare is due to obesity, heart disease, cancer, prescription drugs, and aging.

    If emergency services caused by things like car accidents is the main driver, then let's ban cars. You're for banning everything else.
    And those diseases you talk about, a lot of them turn into emergency type services such as a stroke. If you have a stroke or heart attack, do you have time to pick the cheapest provider? What about kidney stones? I'm not just talking car accidents. Come on man. Even cancer at times has emergency type procedures where you can't shop your care.
    You honestly think the single emergency visit is more expensive than years of prescription drugs, check ups, and scheduled procedures that came before that emergency. Not to mention the years of prescription drugs, check ups, and scheduled procedures that will follow if the poor sap happens to survive?
    There's already pricing known on prescription drugs. I didn't say it was the majority, I said it's a large part.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    Drug prices vary wildly too depending on insurance. You can download an app and get a huge discount paying cash

    None of it makes sense but let's regulate it some more and really fix it this time
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Drug prices vary wildly too depending on insurance. You can download an app and get a huge discount paying cash

    None of it makes sense but let's regulate it some more and really fix it this time

    See race. We can find common ground.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    Drug prices vary wildly too depending on insurance. You can download an app and get a huge discount paying cash

    None of it makes sense but let's regulate it some more and really fix it this time

    See race. We can find common ground.
    No we can't

    It doesn't make sense because of the idiots you shill for

    Fuck off
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club
    edited November 2019
    As if anybody needed more evidence for what a worthless fucking piece of shit hack that fucking Hondo clown is.

    It's all right here in this thread.

    ZERO interest in honest discussion.

    100% working for big medicine as a shill.

    1000000% needs to be lit on fire.



    I was right.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    pawz said:

    As if anybody needed more evidence for what a worthless fucking piece of shit hack that fucking Hondo clown is.

    It's all right here in this thread.

    ZERO interest in honest discussion.

    100% working for big medicine as a shill.

    1000000% needs to be lit on fire.



    I was right.

    I know right! I should just scream free market and throw out 75% savings!!! Only then would I be interested in honest discussion.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    As if anybody needed more evidence for what a worthless fucking piece of shit hack that fucking Hondo clown is.

    It's all right here in this thread.

    ZERO interest in honest discussion.

    100% working for big medicine as a shill.

    1000000% needs to be lit on fire.



    I was right.

    I know right! I should just scream free market and throw out 75% savings!!! Only then would I be interested in honest discussion.
    Fuck off. Light yourself on fire.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    pawz said:

    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    As if anybody needed more evidence for what a worthless fucking piece of shit hack that fucking Hondo clown is.

    It's all right here in this thread.

    ZERO interest in honest discussion.

    100% working for big medicine as a shill.

    1000000% needs to be lit on fire.



    I was right.

    I know right! I should just scream free market and throw out 75% savings!!! Only then would I be interested in honest discussion.
    Fuck off. Light yourself on fire.
    Why so angry? Facts seem to bother you. Strange.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    As if anybody needed more evidence for what a worthless fucking piece of shit hack that fucking Hondo clown is.

    It's all right here in this thread.

    ZERO interest in honest discussion.

    100% working for big medicine as a shill.

    1000000% needs to be lit on fire.



    I was right.

    I know right! I should just scream free market and throw out 75% savings!!! Only then would I be interested in honest discussion.
    Fuck off. Light yourself on fire.
    Why so angry? Facts seem to bother you. Strange.
    You have yet to cite a single relevant fact. So fuck off with your bullshit.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    pawz said:

    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    2001400ex said:

    pawz said:

    As if anybody needed more evidence for what a worthless fucking piece of shit hack that fucking Hondo clown is.

    It's all right here in this thread.

    ZERO interest in honest discussion.

    100% working for big medicine as a shill.

    1000000% needs to be lit on fire.



    I was right.

    I know right! I should just scream free market and throw out 75% savings!!! Only then would I be interested in honest discussion.
    Fuck off. Light yourself on fire.
    Why so angry? Facts seem to bother you. Strange.
    You have yet to cite a single relevant fact. So fuck off with your bullshit.
    Right.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,750 Founders Club
    https://foxbusiness.com/money/trump-health-care-address

    At least someone is working for the people in DC

    The Trump administration unveiled a wide-ranging proposal on Friday requiring hospitals and insurers to give consumers more information about what their health care will cost — a rule intended to increase price transparency for patients shopping for coverage.


    Under the rule, hospitals will have to report the rates they strike with individual insurers for all services, including drugs, supplies, facility fees and care by doctors who work for the facility. If the hospitals fail to comply, they could be forced to pay a $300 per day fine.



    By making those prices public, the Trump administration argues that hospitals will face pressure to compete for patients, eventually causing prices to drop.

    "Our goal was to give patients the knowledge they need about the real price of health care services, so they can shop for the highest quality care at the lowest cost," President Trump said at the White House while introducing the proposal.


    Gee the insurance industry is opposed. Go figure

    “Unfortunately, the rules the administration released today will not help consumers better understand what health services will cost them and may not advance the broader goal of lowering health care costs,” Blue Cross Blue Shield Association President and CEO Scott Serota said in a statement.

    And in July, four of the country's biggest hospital systems said they'd challenge the law in court. A similar health care transparency law in Ohio remains tangled in the legal web.



  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,434 Founders Club

    https://foxbusiness.com/money/trump-health-care-address

    At least someone is working for the people in DC

    The Trump administration unveiled a wide-ranging proposal on Friday requiring hospitals and insurers to give consumers more information about what their health care will cost — a rule intended to increase price transparency for patients shopping for coverage.


    Under the rule, hospitals will have to report the rates they strike with individual insurers for all services, including drugs, supplies, facility fees and care by doctors who work for the facility. If the hospitals fail to comply, they could be forced to pay a $300 per day fine.



    By making those prices public, the Trump administration argues that hospitals will face pressure to compete for patients, eventually causing prices to drop.

    "Our goal was to give patients the knowledge they need about the real price of health care services, so they can shop for the highest quality care at the lowest cost," President Trump said at the White House while introducing the proposal.


    Gee the insurance industry is opposed. Go figure

    “Unfortunately, the rules the administration released today will not help consumers better understand what health services will cost them and may not advance the broader goal of lowering health care costs,” Blue Cross Blue Shield Association President and CEO Scott Serota said in a statement.

    And in July, four of the country's biggest hospital systems said they'd challenge the law in court. A similar health care transparency law in Ohio remains tangled in the legal web.



    So is Hondo. Go figure