Health Insurance is Out of Control

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

First off, I get my bill for $150.00 co-pay for an emergency room visit in August when I got my index finger filleted by a bluefish. No problem with the amount of the co-pay, I knew what it was going to be.....But the entire billing was for $1050.00!!!! All they did was wash it with brown soap, stick some crazy glue on it and give me a script for antibiotics! How can they justify this? I was sitting in the admissions waiting area for 75% of the two hours I was there. In treatment are for less than 30 minutes. $2100.00 per hour? Ridiculous.

So rather than "health insurance" being the problem, isn't this indicative of "health care costs" being the problem? The costs of the hosp. bills is out the control of the insurance industry other than the insurance companies keep costs down by negotiating discounts from the hospital.