Mom died March 1. Today, I got the Medicare summary

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29. This illustrates how absurd our HC system is. The Medicare reimbursement ...

is typically about 10-20% of the "retail price" for HC. So the uninsured are billed the full rate. But most of them can't pay anything like that, so it is all bullshit numbers. The trust cost of services is about 20% of the billed rate, obviously, or else all the doctors and hospitals would be out of business.

But those who have to self-insure for whatever reason really get screwed.. We need universal HC and totally eliminate this bogus, fraudulent pricing system.