What i don’t get is that the US system is not only super expensive but also totally clunky. As patient you need to track who is in an out of network, nobody can tell you how much something will cost, provider directories by the insurance are often wrong, hospitals constantly make mistakes, insurance denies valid claims, insurance gives you wrong info, ambulance may 5000 or 0, nobody knows, cash prices may be cheaper than going through insurance . It almost feels like as patient you need to program the system in assembly where you need to know every little detail of the system without any documentation. Nothing makes sense but everything costs a lot of money.
At a minimum there should be regulation (I know it’s a bad word now) to make the system easy to use without costly traps.
At a minimum there should be regulation (I know it’s a bad word now) to make the system easy to use without costly traps.