Hospitals Shifting Costs to Auto Insurance System, Study Finds

April 22, 2010

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:07 am
    Anne Adamczyk says:
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    Hospitals have routinely shifted costs to non contract payers. Managed care is also responsible for this shifting not just the Medi’s. This is nothing new except to say that hospitals have found a new almost bottomless well from which to pick bucks.

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:11 am
    TN says:
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    Everybody’s going broke, they’re all looking for monies from whatever source they can mine. Eventually the whole shooting match is going to implode, and we’ll have to start from scratch.

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:19 am
    LY says:
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    However, the market for auto insurance cannot contract because auto insurance is state mandated.

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:32 am
    Rusty says:
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    Well, once again, we are seeing more evidence that Obamacare won’t lower medical costs in this country. (The President declaring that it will doesn’t make it so.) First, did they actually think that people would believe costs would be lowered by adding so many more people to the insurance rolls, especially without additional facilities and medical personnel to care for them? (And with reimbursements for services being cut, did they ever think that fewer people would enter the medical professions, while others leave?) Second, these cost shifting schemes will mask the fact that costs aren’t being lowered, while they’re being spread around. (Gee, I wonder if that has anything to do with “spreading the wealth”.) But, I’ll bet the administration will boast of lowered costs while much is being “buried” in other types of insurance. Inevitably, insurance costs to the working and tax-paying public will go up, so once again, we are being taxed. Although Congress and the President will never admit that, anything that raises costs via government fiat is in reality just another tax. Instead, they’ll either find some other euphemism for those costs or simply blame the insurance companies for raising their premiums. Then they’ll decide that it is time to kick private insurers out of the medical process and take it over at the federal level, which is what they really want anyway.

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:34 am
    Tom says:
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    People can, and do, elect to go without insurance when the cost becomes too high and another cost shift occurs to UM/UIM

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:38 am
    Tom says:
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    Rusty, you couldn’t be more right or on point. We are about to see a system wrecked to achieve a goal of insuring only 5% of the 10% who are uninsured. Of course, uninsured does not mean uncared for but in this case the end, social justice, is so lofty a goal that crashing the system on an economic reef is justified. I keep scratching my head on how we got to this point.

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:46 am
    TN says:
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    anybody else hear that “Giant Sucking Sound?”

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:50 am
    KentU says:
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    I’ve been seeing smaller clinics and hospitals in my area doing this for over 25 years. I’ve also been seeing this from health insurance carriers for over 25 years. In many cases their attempt to subrogate ends when we fax them a PIP or Medical payment rejection form which was signed by the insured.

  • April 22, 2010 at 3:51 am
    Tom says:
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    The sound is the singing of the Sirens.

    I heard our President state that healthcare goal (socialized medicine) took 100 years to achieve. Does anyone else wonder why if something is sooooo good for everyone that it takes 100 years to get it in place. The sky must be some other color than blue in Wash D.C.

  • April 22, 2010 at 5:02 am
    theinsexpert says:
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    Once more people are insured, the hospitals will have to subro less, and everyone’s rates will go down. You will just have to wait and see haters, since you lost in the legislative process. Stop hatin’ speculatin’.



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