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jbob2000

I'm getting tired of the passive journalism around american healthcare. Lots of sob stories and lots of statistics, but nobody saying the right things.

Why have I never read "when hospitals charge you too much, they are telling you that you don't deserve to live". $25,000 for an MRI??? That's basically the hospital saying "fuck you, die".

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It sounds like you're looking for an opinion piece when what you're actually reading is reporting of facts or human interest stories.

I guess that's what I was trying to get at - you can report facts and human interest stories til the cows come home, it's just noise at this point, we've heard these stories thousands of times. If journalists want any hand in the healthcare revolution, they need to be more than just mouthpieces.

Hospitals are forced to provide services in emergencies like the situation you described, so it's more like "fuck you, don't pay any of the bills we send you and it will be off of your credit score within seven years"

Much less dramatic but more accurate.

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