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"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay

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167 points ceejayoz | 3 comments | 12 Apr 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.16s | source
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CoastalCoder ◴[12 Apr 25 15:13 UTC] No.43665090[source]▶
Responding to a now-deleted comment that seemed to suggest a violent response:

What would be the point, honestly?

Calling for his assassination would, rightly in my opinion, be prosecutable.

I'm too demoralized at the moment to hope for what I'd consider an appropriate response by state or federal governments / courts.

The third most likely solution, revolution / civil war, would probably cause far more suffering than any fixes it might enable.

I'm curious if America will soon reach a tipping point where a sizeable portion of its population actually makes an effort to emigrate, rather than just talking about it.

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1. candiddevmike ◴[12 Apr 25 15:20 UTC] No.43665146[source]▶
I think the provider side will be the breaking point. You'll start seeing hospitals stop accepting insurance, especially if Medicare goes away, and everything will be cash based. Things will be expensive until hospitals have cut enough fat/figured out the real cost of everything, and this will be a dangerous time to have an illness.

Whether this will usher in a free market utopia remains to be seen, but I think the health insurance industry is going to collapse under the weight of its own greed.

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2. maxerickson ◴[12 Apr 25 15:46 UTC] No.43665381[source]▶
With the majority of payments getting approved, why would providers stop accepting insurance?

If Medicare goes away, much of the healthcare system will simply implode rather than getting more expensive. Looking it up, the system my hospital is part of gets 36% of revenues from Medicare. I expect my hospital is slightly higher than that.

3. sublimefire ◴[12 Apr 25 16:18 UTC] No.43665706[source]▶
I would prob say the hospital knows the optimal price already. It might not be 100% applicable to the US but here is an example in Ireland, if I go to the hospital without any referral or by not being brought in an ambulance which would make it free, I have to pay. The funny thing is that they ask you beforehand if you have insurance and substantially increase the price of an overnight stay, etc if you do, to which point insurers are suggesting customers to withhold such a fact and lower the bill.