How to Not Go Broke When You Need Healthcare, With Journalist Dan Weissmann
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The Self Defense Strategy for Dealing With Our Health System
One of the strategies that i've heard, and you can confirm if this is actually real or not, is that there are magic words that people cold say before receiving health care. So, ye, marshal ou, you memorize the thing that marshall an tells us to memorize, which is, i agree to pay reasonable charges, up to twice the medi care rate. Medi care pays rates that set by the government. They tend to be lower than what blue cross n blue shield takes but it's a standard that the hospital accepts all the time. If they don't hand it back to me, like, sorry, won't accept it. You have to sign it
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