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		rootusrootus on July 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How much health insurers pay for almost everything... What is to stop the local hospital from deciding that an appendectomy costs a million dollars? You pay, insurance pays, no matter, is is a million bucks.

spaetzleesser on July 2, 2022 [–]

If they want to, they should do it, publish the price and see how things go.

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