Healthcare Costs A Lot In America: Why Your Stitches Cost $1,500

Found this great info-graphic today here. Click the image below to see the full size version.

 

Via: Medical Billing And Coding

 

Key Points:

  1. Providers charge more because they can.
  2. They can charge more
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A Customer On The Rocks

Hi Jeff Bezos,

I am a very long time Amazon customer.  The first Amazon order I can still see in the system is Order Number: 002-0510623-4668803 from May 13th, 2002.   I have since grown to … Read the rest

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