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The same thing that's keeping the biller from doing it correctly will also keep the startup from fixing it.

Unless you intend it to be a manual process, which isn't practical since you'll need info from everyone that's going to be hard to collect, i.e. the same problem the biller has.

The way it used to work was the biller charged insurance, and insurance paid, and that was the end of it. No one ever double checked anything.

Obama (with Obamacare) changed that - now everyone has a high deductible, insurance pays part, but you pay part. And suddenly people are motivated to check the bills.

Realistically the biller just drops bills where the person has to pay, and they live off of what insurance pays automatically.

The "on paper" of what American health care is, vs the reality are very different. The reality is weirder, but better (by better I mean less expensive than it looks on paper).




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