Insurance companies largely won their fight in Congress last year to gain the ability to set the prices that they pay doctors. Will doctors have a say? No. Patients? No.
The insurance companies and an arbiter will have the last word. At least, that is, if the Biden administration goes along with also writing the regulations in a way that fully benefits insurance companies. A political game that played out over the past few years has been the fight over surprise medical bills. However, the game wasn’t the normal black and white of politics as usual. The players agreed that patients shouldn’t have to face these surprise bills.
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