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Also, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a long story about hospital markups, that is, what persons with no insurance have to pay. A nugget:
That’s largely because people don’t shop for medical care and hospitals don’t provide cost estimates, Anderson said.
“There is nobody saying to [the hospitals] on behalf of the uninsured and a few other groups that they can’t do it,” Anderson said.
“You just had a heart attack or your appendix burst, so you can’t negotiate a price and you wouldn’t know how much it cost even if you could,” he said.
Via Balloon Juice.
