Cash pay, physician-owned hospitals like https://t.co/GupOVUB5SK and https://t.co/BlYW3y2eHJ provide better care for up to 90% lower cost. But the ACA outlawed new physician-owned hospitals and instead gave subsidies to insurance companies.
Meanwhile, the revolving door for lobbyists in pharma, health insurance, and GPOs ensures that a large portion of healthcare dollars goes to corporate middlemen.
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Repairing a Broken Supply Chain: Scrubs vs.
@SurgeryCenterOK@veritassurgery
If you found out your spouse was paying $100 for a dozen eggs, there’d be an issue.
This happens everyday in healthcare.
Except your spouse claims they got “network discounts.”
And oddly still doesn’t share the receipt.
Healthcare is broken. Not in some abstract academic way — broken for you, the patient.
You can’t choose your surgeon. You don’t know what anything costs. You get shuffled to who’s available.
This is insane.
We exist to fix one slice of the healthcare disaster: surgery
A one payer healthcare system can sound great. But what happens in a monopoly with no competition? Abuse, higher costs, poor care. Look at the one payer systems of the world and show me one that works well. You can’t properly “check” quality and cost.
Just saw a hospital bill a patient $47k for an ACL repair. That repair is $10,675 with Veritas surgeons without any compromising of care. When you leave the cartel….good things happen.
Nobody’s waiting for you to build the next great healthcare company.
So don’t wait for them either.
Move like they can’t stop you.
Because if you do this right, they won’t.
Most traditional health insurance brokers make more money from the insurance carriers than they do from their customers — the employers.
Kickbacks are real and why the industry has remained a cluster for so long.
Transparency and truth will win.
But, @veritassurgery believe we should be "going direct" with our customers, our patients.
Pre-authorizations gatekeeping. Nope.
Inflated costs to account for insurance negotiations. Pass.
Patients unsure of their price. Try again.
Health share + Direct primary care is a great family healthcare solution.
Self-funding + Direct primary care + narrowed network of direct specialty provides is a great company benefits solution.
The era of big insurance is over.
In order to make profit, they ask the hospitals for lower Medicare reimbursement and in exchange they will give hospitals a higher reimbursement for insurance patients.
Socialized medicine never works.
Medicare Advantage creates higher prices for traditional insurance holders. So the majority of us pay more.
How?
Insurance companies on average get $12k a year for a Medicare member.
@charliebilello Due to the medical loss ratio (thanks a lot Obamacare), the only way the insurance cartel makes money is by the cost of care increasing, because the gov has required they only keep 15% for administration, profit, etc. To be a fly on the wall for hospital/insurance “negotiations”