Chris - If you deem this post as political, please delete it and I apologize. It is not meant to be. This post is meant to be very educational for all, no matter your political affilliation.
A good friend of ours (David Belk) is a doctor with a private practice out in CA. For more than a year, he has been working on a web site to tell the truth about the cost of our health care in this country. This is an eye-opener to be sure!
Just this past week, his work was picked up by the LA Times with a link to his web site that caused his web traffic to soar. Then he got a call from the NY Times and has an interview scheduled for next week.
He has since received emails from some top name insurance companies and also a medical agency in Russia that want to talk to him! (He's not going to respond at this time).
Heres a link to Dave's site: Healthcare - Home. The site discusses The "cost" of health care vs. the "price" of health care.
And a link to the LA Times story: Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills - latimes.com
Take it for what it's worth. But the man is real and he knows what he's talking about. If this thread doesn't get deleted, I'll post the results of the NYT interview after it happens.