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 50 hospitals charge uninsured more than 10 times cost of care, 20 are in Florida

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TEOTWAWKI

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-some-hospitals-can-get-away-with-price-gouging-patients-study-finds/2015/06/08/b7f5118c-0aeb-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html

Topping the list of the most expensive hospitals is North Okaloosa Medical Center, a 110-bed facility in the Florida Panhandle about an hour outside of Pensacola. Uninsured patients are charged 12.6 times the actual cost of patient care.
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When the uninsured patients can't pay, the hospitals try to spread unpaid balances among the insured suckers.
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Eric wrote:
When the uninsured patients can't pay, the hospitals try to spread unpaid balances among the insured suckers.

Didn't the cowh and democrats solve all the healthcare issues and it didn't cost us "one thin dime"?
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mediawatcher wrote:
Eric wrote:
When the uninsured patients can't pay, the hospitals try to spread unpaid balances among the insured suckers.

    Didn't the cowh and democrats solve all the healthcare issues and it didn't cost us "one thin dime"?

I'm pretty sure I heard that lie too, about 10,000 times before Oblamer said he didn't say it.....
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nochain wrote:
mediawatcher wrote:
Eric wrote:
When the uninsured patients can't pay, the hospitals try to spread unpaid balances among the insured suckers.

    Didn't the cowh and democrats solve all the healthcare issues and it didn't cost us "one thin dime"?

I'm pretty sure I heard that lie too, about 10,000 times before Oblamer said he didn't say it.....

Who was that in the video that said it?....
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