Where is the "woke" that Republican candidates want to wage a war on?

[ck4829]

Another ridiculous medical bill and nothing referring to anything "woke" on it.

Or at least I'm not seeing it.

That must be it, right?



Where is it?

[jaxexpat]

1. Great post.

I especially like the totally arbitrary "discount to patient" part. That always gives me a good laugh. (And by "good", I mean really disgusted sigh).

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2. Bill from 2013 with patient's name?

Hospitals inflate charges without any realistic hope of getting that paid (hence discount to patient) and this post identifying patient violates HIPAA.

(point taken that medical costs are out of control)

[NutmegYankee]

3. HIPAA only applies to medical industry for unauthorized disclosures.

A patient is free to release their bill to the internet, and other users are free to share that.

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5. Agreed as long as that's how it went down (nt)

[Joinfortmill]

4. Woke is all about education and facts... GOP doesn't like them much.

[KentuckyWoman]

6. Thank goodness for ObamaCare

2013 would be just about the time revenues to hospitals to combat high uncompensated care started really making a difference. They still inflate charges to make up for underpayments and unpaid services but the gap has come down since 2010.

Kentucky accepted medicaid expansion and also let hospitals apply for funds under HRSA. It quite literally saved a number of rural hospitals and some inner city too. There are similar results all over the country.

[Montauk6]

7. They don't want people woke

They want them thoroughly anesthetized.

And, at $31,049.61 per, that's a helluva fundraiser.