There should be no reason why a hospital bills my insurance company 10,000 dollars for a procedure but if I went in to the hospital and said I have no insurance , I will pay with cash what does it cost? Well usually its about 80% difference in cost. Obviously like a credit card there is money that goes towards paying someone to do the paperwork etc... but still . Seems asinine eh?
I had an emergency appendectomy in 2010. The total billing to my insurance was 26k and some change. I had a buddy who had the same thing done with no insurance, same hospital, and he paid 1800 bucks . Doesn't there seem to be something wrong here?
Viva La Canada esse !!!
Aren't something like 60% of personal bankruptcies in the States because of medical bills?
I too have a medical bill bankruptcy. It was due to my wife passing in a car wreck and me being 22 didn't have 200k to give a hospital. The oddest part about all of it is there is some law in Oklahoma where if the husband dies, his debts aren't passed to her but if the wife dies hers are passed to the husband. I dont know it work for word and it might only deal with some debts but medical bills were one of them haha.
Mitch McConnell is a moron (I know, no news in that)
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Is the Obama Administration preparing to give prisoners at Guantanamo Bay GI Bill benefits as part of a plan to “completely crush their souls with bureaucracy?” Wired Magazine reports that Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office asked the Pentagon that very question after a constituent sounded the alarm.
The problem? That far-fetched notion came from a story on the satirical site “The Duffel Blog,” a military-focused answer to The Onion. (Wired posted the constituent’s letter and the query from McConnell’s office on its top-notch “Danger Room” blog on national security).
“I am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits,” McConnell wrote. “I would appreciate your review and response to my constituent’s concerns.”
What triggered the unnamed Kentuckian’s worries? This post.
“By allowing the detainees to use the Department of Veterans Affairs, we hope to completely crush their souls with bureaucracy,” a (fake) Pentagon spokesman says in the piece.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is then quoted as saying: “Because most ‘guests’ at Guantanamo Bay have been there nearly a decade and there is no end in site for their ‘visit,’ the Department of Veterans Affairs is ready to have their claims processed in 12-15 years as per standard operating procedure.”
This is, as Danger Room reporter Spencer Ackerman points out, an attempt “to send up the inadequate, mollasses-slow [sic] benefits the government provides to the nation’s veterans.”
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said on the House floor Thursday that Obamacare would kill women, children and senior citizens — “literally.”
“That’s why we’re here: Because we’re saying let’s repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens,” Bachmann said. “Let’s not do that. Let’s love people. Let’s care about people. Let’s repeal it now while we can.”
Hundreds of jeering protesters helped stop Texas lawmakers from passing one of the toughest abortion measures in the U.S., shouting down Senate Republicans and forcing them to miss a midnight deadline to pass the bill.
Sen. Wendy Davis spent most of the day staging an old-fashioned filibuster, attracting wide support, including a mention from President Barack Obama's campaign Twitter account. Her Twitter following went from 1,200 in the morning to more than 20,000 by Tuesday night.
If signed into law, the measures would close almost every abortion clinic in Texas, a state with 26 million people.
Also, the US Supreme court is set to rule on the Defence of Marriage Bill and California's Same sex marriage ban. These rulings can potentially change gay rights in the US. Really exciting stuff in terms of politics coming out of the states right now
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She fillibusters a Texas state senate attempt to ban abortions for 13 hours until after midnight when the vote would be invalid.
Texas senate decides to vote and ban abortions anyway in flagrant contravention of due process.
Texas legislature is then overrun with hundreds of activists.
Associated Press was in collusion with the GOP to cheat the process by reporting that the vote happened before midnight when thousands of people across the internet clearly saw that it didn't. All the while other purported news organizations like CNN and Fox don't even cover the event.
The Senate then changes the timestamp for the vote.
Well how didn't this get bumped when Anthony Weiner got busted again is beyond me. Even more amazed it didn't get bumped once his texting handle came out. I mean Carlos Danger? Carlos Danger?
So beyond the obvious question of "Is Anthony Weiner really this dumb", the most obvious question is where does Carlos Danger rank in the pantheon of worst fake names?
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So beyond the obvious question of "Is Anthony Weiner really this dumb", the most obvious question is where does Carlos Danger rank in the pantheon of worst fake names?
Bachman is an idiot, but then again, so is every other politician. She sticks out like a cyst amongst a bunch of giant zits.
Here's how Obamacare has affected me personally so far:
My company had to switch from one insurance carrier to another because they could no longer afford the original. After the switch, my premium co-pay per month was still hiked, my deductible is now $10,000 instead of $5,000. My co-pay at an office visit is now $40 instead of $25, and my kids' pediatrician is no longer 'in network' so now I have to drive about 45 minutes to get to a decent doctor who is 'in-network.' Also, my insurance can now decline paying for treatment unless I provide them with any sort of paperwork on preexisting conditions, which is a tactic they can use to delay payment and make me jump through 500 hoops to get them their information, which is a pain, and their attempt to not have to pay for treatment. My co-payment for medication has been hiked from $5-$25 to $20-100. Oh, and my husband, who previously paid cash for all doctors' visits because he never ever went to the doctor (one time in the past 15 years), now has to pay $337/month for 'affordable' insurance because I have to wait until next year for 'open enrollment' to add him to my plan, which will cost me another $175/month.
Thank you Mr. Obama. So glad you're working for the middle class.
