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"New Obamacare Loophole Shows Failure of For-Profit Health System: Critics".. [View all]
I'm not sure if everything about the ACA should be in that thread that's pinned. If so, I'll delete this and put it there.
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-4
Announced on May 2, a new loophole in ACA would open the door to "reference pricing", allowing insurance companies to set their own prices for some medical procedures. The patient would have to pay out-of-pocket for the balance.
Another reason we need universal health CARE.
Many worry that reference pricing will force patients to bear the burden of a costly and difficult-to-navigate medical system.
"We don't need reference pricing—we need "right pricing" under a single-payer program," Don McCanne, M.D., senior health policy fellow at Physicians for a National Health Program told Common Dreams. "This is merely another way in which insurance companies are going to chisel down payment for care, shifting a greater share of the cost onto patients."
"We don't need reference pricing—we need "right pricing" under a single-payer program," Don McCanne, M.D., senior health policy fellow at Physicians for a National Health Program told Common Dreams. "This is merely another way in which insurance companies are going to chisel down payment for care, shifting a greater share of the cost onto patients."
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