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Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1043" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/do-europeans-get-big-medical-bills/586906/" target="_blank"><strong>Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills - The Atlantic</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Other countries still have health insurers, but they avoid five-figure medical bills. The answer lies in how the insurers and doctors are regulated. </strong></p><p></p><p>Should America just get rid of health insurers?</p><p></p><p>Americans <a href="https://theharrispoll.com/only-nine-percent-of-u-s-consumers-believe-pharmaceutical-and-biotechnology-companies-put-patients-over-profits-while-only-16-percent-believe-health-insurance-companies-do-according-to-a-harris-pol/" target="_blank">don’t seem to like</a> insurance companies much, even if they’re <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcare-quite-positively.aspx" target="_blank">happy with their health coverage</a> itself. Several Democratic <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18103087/medicare-for-all-explained-single-payer-health-care-sanders-jayapal" target="_blank">health-care proposals </a>would end private health insurance entirely, an idea that some Americans seem to applaud, until <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/02/people-have-no-idea-what-single-payer-means/471045/" target="_blank">you tell them</a> that it would entail higher taxes and a government-run system. And <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcare-quite-positively.aspx" target="_blank">then they sometimes</a>, but <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403248-poll-seventy-percent-of-americans-support-medicare-for-all" target="_blank">not always</a>, become less sanguine.</p><p></p><p>One reason insurance companies get a bad rap is that they’re associated with “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/hospital-bills-medical-debt-bankruptcy/584998/" target="_blank">surprise medical bills</a>.” These <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/the-agony-of-surprise-medical-bills/393785/" target="_blank">billing nightmares</a> occur when insured patients go to a hospital they thought was in-network, but then—sometimes inadvertently—see a doctor who is out-of-network while they’re there. (This is on top of the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/hospital-bills-medical-debt-bankruptcy/584998/" target="_blank">exorbitantly high medical bills</a> that many uninsured people receive, no matter what doctor or hospital they go to.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1043, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/do-europeans-get-big-medical-bills/586906/'][B]Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills - The Atlantic[/B][/URL] [B] Other countries still have health insurers, but they avoid five-figure medical bills. The answer lies in how the insurers and doctors are regulated. [/B] Should America just get rid of health insurers? Americans [URL='https://theharrispoll.com/only-nine-percent-of-u-s-consumers-believe-pharmaceutical-and-biotechnology-companies-put-patients-over-profits-while-only-16-percent-believe-health-insurance-companies-do-according-to-a-harris-pol/']don’t seem to like[/URL] insurance companies much, even if they’re [URL='https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcare-quite-positively.aspx']happy with their health coverage[/URL] itself. Several Democratic [URL='https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18103087/medicare-for-all-explained-single-payer-health-care-sanders-jayapal']health-care proposals [/URL]would end private health insurance entirely, an idea that some Americans seem to applaud, until [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/02/people-have-no-idea-what-single-payer-means/471045/']you tell them[/URL] that it would entail higher taxes and a government-run system. And [URL='https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcare-quite-positively.aspx']then they sometimes[/URL], but [URL='https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403248-poll-seventy-percent-of-americans-support-medicare-for-all']not always[/URL], become less sanguine. One reason insurance companies get a bad rap is that they’re associated with “[URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/hospital-bills-medical-debt-bankruptcy/584998/']surprise medical bills[/URL].” These [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/the-agony-of-surprise-medical-bills/393785/']billing nightmares[/URL] occur when insured patients go to a hospital they thought was in-network, but then—sometimes inadvertently—see a doctor who is out-of-network while they’re there. (This is on top of the [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/hospital-bills-medical-debt-bankruptcy/584998/']exorbitantly high medical bills[/URL] that many uninsured people receive, no matter what doctor or hospital they go to.) [/QUOTE]
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