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Originally Posted by Itse
While the insurance companies tend to be ghouls, an equally big problem is the healthcare companies massively overcharging for their services and often doing unnecessary tests so they can charge for them... and a big reason this happens is exactly because most of the time there's an insurance company that's obligated to pay.
Then when the insurance companies fight back against the healthcare companies overcharging and overtreating, the end result is customers being denied coverage.
It's just an overall terrible system, where everyone is financially incentivized to be terrible.
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The health care firms also do a bunch of unnecessary/expensive testing to CYA in a system where if it turns out a test could maybe have caught something they get sued for millions.