AMAC is part of the 34 member, free-market Coalition Against Rate Setting (CARS) that strongly oppose any attempt to ‘fix’ surprise billing with harmful government price controls like those in the Senate HELP, House Energy & Commerce, and House Education & Labor bills.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Coalition Against Rate-Setting (CARS) rebuked a statement by House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-Ore.), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (RNC), Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that claims to want to find a solution to surprise billing:
“CARS is made up of 34 organizations that strongly oppose any attempt to ‘fix’ surprise billing with harmful government price controls like those in the Senate HELP, House Energy & Commerce, and House Education & Labor bills. The Department of Health and Human Service’s report released today does not change the fact that each of these proposals would harm patients and doctors during a pandemic.
Doctors and hospital workers are putting their lives on the line every day, yet some in Congress want to see their pay slashed overnight. Members of Congress are concerned about the pressing problem of surprise medical billing, but this pressing problem would be made far worse by bureaucrats setting healthcare prices and putting all the power in the hands of large insurance companies. Patients need choices, not another failed federal foray into healthcare.
Lawmakers and the Trump Administration must continue to do everything they can to help healthcare providers help patients. Enacting rate-setting across the country would short-change the country’s doctors and hospitals and hamstring their efforts to contain the pandemic.”
Hospital systems are like criminal organizations. They can send you a bill for what ever they choose any time they choose. Try not paying or disputing it and you get bad credit. Unless you find an exceptional doctor they are not much different.
Price fixing maybe not but some kind of oversight is needed.
Doctots,nurses,firefighters, police, waitreses, grocery clerks, factory workers etc… all put their lives on the line everyday by the way.
Amac work on surprise billing and you get you get my vote. Otherwise.. well I’m not sure.
Ok, AMAC doesn’t like price fixing, neither do I. But surprise medical billings need to be stopped.
What is the solution to take the surprise out surprise medical billings ?
Ok, AMAC doesn’t like price fixing, neither do I. But surprise medical billings need to be stopped.
What is the solution to take the surprise out surprise medical billings ?