Those Indecipherable Medical Bills? They're One Reason Health Care Costs So Much.
And because strategic coding meant increased payment, that begot coding specialists and coding courses and coding degrees. And perhaps for good reason: The American medical Association owns the copyright to CPT, the code used by doctors. Caught in the crossfire are Americans like Wanda Wickizer, left with huge bills and indecipherable explanations in languages they cannot possibly understand. Coding systems begot new coding systems, because few hospitals wanted to be paid according to Medicare's relatively low DRG standards. With medical bills totaling nearly $500,000 and no health insurance, the numbers didn't addup.
Mark Cuban Believes Health Care 'Should Be a Right'
As the fight over Obamacare and Trumpcare continues to swirl, billionaire investor Mark Cuban made clear his views on health care in a recent interview. It "should be a right," he told Business Insider, before the American Health Care Act, whose passage would have rolled back the Affordable Care Act, was withdrawn from Congress last week. Saying that all sides of the U.S. health care debate were "ignoring the basic question," the Shark Tank investor asked, alluding to a question he credited to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Is health care a right or an opportunity in the United States?" Cuban, who went from praising then-GOP contender Donald Trump to becoming an all-out supporter of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, has a visibly tense relationship with the President. "I believe that, given we all face the exact same genetic and wrong place, wrong time risks, coverage of most chronic and life-threatening illnesses or injuries should be a right," the Dallas Mavericks owner said.collected by :Lucy William
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