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They can’t hide your healthcare prices any longer - Trump


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2019 Nov 18, 8:51pm   1,766 views  54 comments

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Straight from https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily/ :

While Democrats in Congress are busy doing anything they can not to help working Americans under this President, the Trump Administration unveiled a pair of new rules on Friday that will make healthcare prices simpler and clearer than ever before.

“We’re requiring price transparency in healthcare, forcing companies to compete for your business,” President Trump said from the White House. “Our goal was to give patients the knowledge they need about the real price of healthcare services.”

What does that mean for patients? “They’ll be able to check them, compare them, go to different locations—so they can shop for the highest-quality care at the lowest cost.”

The first rule compels hospitals to finally publish their prices online for all to see. For years, these prices were often all but impossible to find, leaving Americans with nasty surprise bills after a medical visit. Now, families will be able to see and compare all of these costs beforehand with the new, easy-to-read formats that will soon be available.

The next rule, newly proposed, will require health insurance providers and group health plans to give cost estimates to enrollees before care is delivered. Like it’s doing with hospitals, the Trump Administration wants to push these companies to make lists of all their pricing information available to the public.

Together, these actions represent the most aggressive steps taken by any President to put healthcare price information in the hands of patients. That’s important not just for honesty and fairness; transparent prices also lead to lower healthcare costs overall.

Powerful interest groups spent years trying to keep these rules from happening. By making the true price and quality of care a closely guarded secret, the industry giants controlled the markets—and your healthcare dollars. When President Trump came to Washington, he promised to do things differently than Beltway career insiders have done for years. “We’re taking on the bureaucrats in more ways than one,” he said Friday.


OMFG if this goes through and health plans are forced to give estimates, that got my vote for Trump right there.

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41   mell   2019 Nov 19, 4:37pm  

Booger says
mell says
Right, abortions should be completely defunded, saves a lot of money. WTF if you want to kill your unborn at the minimum pay for it, don't make others pay for your moral hazard.


Other optional stuff shouldn't be covered either. Childbirth being high on my list of optional things.


Certainly not for bare or catastrophical insurance. There's still the argument that kids pay taxes in the future to fund the older generations SS and Medicare. But it can be made a choice on the health plan and you just pay a little more if you opt in, shouldn't be too much, womyn have far fewer kids than sicknesses in their lives.
42   theoakman   2019 Nov 20, 7:28am  

"The American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday called for a total ban on all e-cigarette and vaping products that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as smoking cessation tools.

The AMA is urging regulators and legislators at the state and local levels to ban the sale and distribution of all e-cigarette and vaping products, and stipulates that those products should only be available by prescription."


It looks like the country's labor cartel of doctors want in on the vaping profits. Their goal has always been to make healthcare as expensive as possible.
43   Shaman   2019 Nov 20, 9:29am  

theoakman says
It looks like the country's labor cartel of doctors want in on the vaping profits. Their goal has always been to make healthcare as expensive as possible.


Or... maybe they are concerned that the vapers aren’t going to be needing as many lungs removed, cancer treatments, and lung transplants. safer vices mean less medical treatment which means less money for the AMA.
44   rdm   2019 Nov 20, 9:55am  

ignoreme says
Now if Trump just keeps his other campaign promise and let’s people buy drugs across borders medical costs will plummet.


He also promised to let medicare negotiate with the drug companies which would be a huge savings...hows that going?
45   ignoreme   2019 Nov 20, 10:42am  

rdm says
He also promised to let medicare negotiate with the drug companies which would be a huge savings...hows that going?


Right, because Trump hasn’t been able to accomplish something yet that no other politician is even promising to try and do orange man bad.
46   CBOEtrader   2019 Nov 20, 11:04am  

Patrick says
OMFG if this goes through and health plans are forced to give estimates, that got my vote for Trump right there.


Can we start a health service search database built into patrick.net?

I'd like to plan minor surgeries while reading jazzmusiz analysasss.
47   mell   2019 Nov 20, 11:07am  

CBOEtrader says
Patrick says
OMFG if this goes through and health plans are forced to give estimates, that got my vote for Trump right there.


Can we start a health service search database built into patrick.net?

I'd like to plan minor surgeries while reading jazzmusiz analysasss.


Great idea, also pricing by MDs, there are vast differences. Also those who bill incorrectly and over-bill. Those who give great cash discounts etc.
48   theoakman   2019 Nov 20, 11:30am  

Shaman says
theoakman says
It looks like the country's labor cartel of doctors want in on the vaping profits. Their goal has always been to make healthcare as expensive as possible.


Or... maybe they are concerned that the vapers aren’t going to be needing as many lungs removed, cancer treatments, and lung transplants. safer vices mean less medical treatment which means less money for the AMA.


Yeah right. They want to charge you a monthly visitation fee to get your vape on.
49   Onvacation   2019 Nov 21, 8:52am  

HEYYOU says
Onvacation says
Just sharing for all those that ignore you.


Share this,also
Only childish retard ignorers can't handle the truth or even post a counter argument to the fact that Rep/Con scum support a liar,draft dodger,sex pervert,multiple adulterer or that they are failures that can't pay off all their debt,right now. What kind of losers can't pay cash for their shack that can be taken any time they can't pay their mortgage, making their families homeless?

There ya go
50   CBOEtrader   2019 Nov 21, 9:36am  

Seriously though, the first entrepreneur to take this data, build it into the healthcare version of Priceline = mega billionaire.

It would be a lead generation goldmine, every organic visitor worth $10-20 of average click through lead gen fees.

The data will be in a public API accessible database.
52   Patrick   2021 Sep 5, 4:18pm  

Brilliant video!

Again, there is no law when the laws are selectively enforced to benefit the politically connected.
53   Booger   2021 Sep 5, 4:38pm  

Patrick says
Brilliant video!

Again, there is no law when the laws are selectively enforced to benefit the politically connected.


You should personally sue all hospitals in your area that have failed to comply.

Lawsuits are the answer.
54   Patrick   2021 Sep 5, 4:42pm  

Booger says
You should personally sue all hospitals in your area that have failed to comply.

Lawsuits are the answer.


This is a good idea, I'll look into it.

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