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The middlemen are the parasites sucking the life of the system then.The insurance industry and the concentration/merger of providers is most if not all of the sand in the gear of Obamacare.
I despair if ever a small degree of free mkt competition will ever return to the US system.
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Physician frustrations grow in changing health care environment

After a patient’s pelvic exam Pap test results came back abnormal last January, the next step medically called for a procedure to determine whether the abnormal cells indicated a treatable infection — the most likely possibility — or something more serious, including a developing cervical cancer.

Ten months later, gynecologist David Deitrick said his patient is still deciding what to do.

The problem is the patient’s insurer, one of the national carriers in the Pittsburgh market, says her plan does not cover the procedure if it’s done at an outpatient surgical center.

She could have it done at Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills, where Dr. Deitrick sees patients, but then her bill would be hundreds of dollars more, including facility fees and other hospital-related costs
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http://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/2016/10/17/Physician-frustrations-grow-in-changing-health-care-environment/stories/201610160081