The public wants to be shielded from how much health care costs. David Hogberg says that ain’t happening, whether you like it or not:
Sorry, but expecting money to play no part in health care decisions is like asking for the law of gravity to be suspended.If you decide that you don’t want to make decisions regarding how much of your money to spend on health care, someone else”“i.e., the government”“will make it for you.
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This conclusion is based on one woman’s comment?
On the contrary, I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t prefer to receive bills for their health care that itemize costs clearly, particularly after hospital stays when it’s impossible to tell what services you actually received and were charged for — or charged for multiple times.
Even after a routine physical last spring, the bill I receive contained several pages of charges linked to undecipherable codes. They may mean something to clinic billing departments but obviously not to consumers, and it is up to the providers to clear up that mess…rather than point fingers and claim we don’t WANT to know.
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