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6. Republicants seem to not realize insurance companies negotiate prices

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 08:20 AM

Dec 10

with hospitals and providers, such that the $7500 CT scan only gets billed at about $750. Doesn't mean that if i go into the ER and get a CT scan (without insurance) I'll only be billed $750, I'd get billed the full amount. Not to mention that smaller insurance pools means higher premiums.

They say that they want the money going to patients, instead of insurance companies. What they don't seem to know is that any money going to an individual will go to the insurance company for premiums. Paul gets paid, whether you pay him directly, or rob Peter to pay him.,

Medicare for all is the only real solution, and it IS what Eisenhower advocated in the 1950's.

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