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One of the big problems with standard health insurance, - standard hospital charges, and

Posted: Sep 19th, 2019 - 6:03 am In Reply to: Walmart's Healthcare Experiment Has Begun, It May Be A Game - Changer

standard doctor bills is cost shifting. Over the years, the politicians have imposed mandates to shovel welfare medicine onto the backs of paying customers in ways that conceal the cost.

The idea is for consumers to blame doctors, hospitals, and evil insurance companies, rather than the politicians, for runaway medical bills. The strategy works for the politicians, but it is a lousy deal for everyone else.

Concierge medicine operating on a walk-in, cash basis can evade much of this overhead. That is good, but it is not a level playing field. The question for Walmart will come when the activist groups, soon backed by local, state, and federal pols, demand that the store-based clinics offer free medicine to low-income clients. You know: "no one can be turned away."

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