Headline: Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay
You have to get about 80% of the way through to read a more accurate version of the truth: "Medicare payment rates, which reimburse below the cost of care, should not be held as a standard benchmark for hospital prices”
“Medicare payment rates, which reimburse below the cost of care, should not be held as a standard benchmark for hospital prices,” said Melinda Hatton, general counsel for the American Hospital Association, AN INDUSTRY TRADE GROUP, in an emailed statement. [emphasis mine]
You claim that the quoted statement is more accurate / truthful than the statement that private insurers pay more than the Medicare rate, and seem to imply that the Times’ reporting is biased. Did I get that right?
Would you like to furnish some support for those claims?