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On 7/1/25 5:32 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:

https://amac.us/newsline/society/report-hospitals-hiding-prices-using- third-parties-to-sue-patients/

A new report has exposed in shocking detail how hospitals are suing
patients over medical debt through “stealth intermediaries” – while also
massively overcharging for services ranging from routine blood tests to
major surgeries.

The study from PatientRightsAdvocate.org in partnership with George Washington University and Stanford University School of Medicine
specifically examined the practices of UCHealth, a large nonprofit
hospital system with 14 hospitals in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

According to the report’s findings, UCHealth brought more than 15,700 medical debt lawsuits using aggressive “debt-seeking middlemen” to hide its responsibility in targeting patients. In some cases, patients’ wages were garnished for hospital bills they had never even seen in full. In others, bank accounts were seized.

Anything can become a racket ...

However when it's health-related that's
an especial tragedy.

Anyway, broad EXPOSURE of this is the best cure.

But, there could be fallout - broke hospitals
closing down.

"Medicine" used to be a "calling" - but somewhere
in the last 50 years or so it became a Big Business.

To a point this wasn't awful - got the top techniques
and hardware into most every area, your county hospital
suddenly had CAT/MRI/etc scanners and robo-surgeries
and stuff you only USED to find a tiny handful of
super-big hospitals probably nowhere NEAR you.

The DOWN side, well, PROFIT becomes more important
than patients - the 'calling' gets lost and we see
things like you describe.

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