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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: healthcare
Date: 11/12/25 12:15 PM
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Is your wife in a practice that has staff to manage some of that paperwork load?

No. She is a solo.

Add that to the cost of health care- as well as the correlative staff in the insurance billing department that processes claims.

Physicians and other care providers in the United States are only the tip of a mighty long and hefty spear, and the costs of that long and hefty spear add up, and they also include the cost of stratospheric upper management salaries- stockholders as well, and big fancy corporate headquarters


This is with Medicare, not private insurance. It was (and now is again) a constant struggle with them to get the claims paid. The private insurers are much easier to deal with.
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