You finally see how the system really works.
You go for an MRI. It takes 30 minutes. A machine does the work. No surgery. No overnight stay.
Then the bill comes: *$2,000+*
But Mark Cuban just said what everyone was thinking: That same MRI barely costs *$350* to actually do.
So where does the other $1,650 go?
It doesn't go to the doctor. It doesn't go to better care. It goes to the middlemen. To the hospital billing department. To the insurance company negotiating fake prices. To the admin who codes it, re-codes it, denies it, then approves it.
In America, healthcare doesn't have a real price. It has a _made-up_ price.
If you pay cash, it's $350. If insurance pays, it's $2,000. Same machine. Same scan. Same 30 minutes.
That's why Cuban is angry. And that's why you should be too.
You're not paying for healthcare. You're paying for a system designed to inflate the bill, because everyone in the chain gets a cut of the bigger number.
The MRI didn't cost $2,000. The system did.
Have you ever gotten a medical bill in the US that made NO sense? How much was it for?"
#BTCâ
You go for an MRI. It takes 30 minutes. A machine does the work. No surgery. No overnight stay.
Then the bill comes: *$2,000+*
But Mark Cuban just said what everyone was thinking: That same MRI barely costs *$350* to actually do.
So where does the other $1,650 go?
It doesn't go to the doctor. It doesn't go to better care. It goes to the middlemen. To the hospital billing department. To the insurance company negotiating fake prices. To the admin who codes it, re-codes it, denies it, then approves it.
In America, healthcare doesn't have a real price. It has a _made-up_ price.
If you pay cash, it's $350. If insurance pays, it's $2,000. Same machine. Same scan. Same 30 minutes.
That's why Cuban is angry. And that's why you should be too.
You're not paying for healthcare. You're paying for a system designed to inflate the bill, because everyone in the chain gets a cut of the bigger number.
The MRI didn't cost $2,000. The system did.
Have you ever gotten a medical bill in the US that made NO sense? How much was it for?"
#BTCâ
