Healthcae in America = Sad

**Alundil** · 02-22-13, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by 619summon

its pharmacys too.

I was getting a medication by cash and was only paying 46.00 dollars

when my insurance changed and started covering it I was shocked to find out they charge my insurance 333.00 dollars for the same meds.

Your ins would very likely, NEVER, pay that $333 per dose those. Billed amounts are not the paid amounts in most instances where ins is concerned. This is because ins pegs the amounts that they'll pay at slightly more than medicare/aid and medicare/aid is barely at cost depending on contracted amount.

**deathgodusmc** · 02-22-13, 05:57 PM

I agree with your post alundil aside from one point. Your items aren't the major issue. The definitely affect the problem but what we pay for everything is a larger problem then the cost of a machine that they turn around and make a million times more money then they paid for it.

To put it another way according to the stats i can find there are somewhere between 7 and 10 thousand mri machines in the US. They go for just over a million a piece. We'll go high end numbers and say thats 10 billion for the equipment if we bought them all at the same time. They say we average 91.2 scans per 1000 people. Thats just under 28.5 million scans a year. From what i can find the average cost is between 1000 and 3600 for an mri. We'll split the difference and call it 2300. Coming in at 65.55 billion a year in just mri's in the US. Of course they have to be maintained as well which i think we can agree is less then what they cost to purchase.

So yeah the machine is over priced but they are still butt raping everyone with it.