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“Physicians routinely act in conformity with their financial interests.”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“Check the prices that the medical providers charged for the services you received. Use the sites HealthcareBluebook.com and FairHealthConsumer.org and call the same people sending you the bills and others to ask for the cash price for the same services.”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“Always ask for the cash price. It might be a better deal than if you ran what you need through your insurance plan.”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“Your wages are not rising like they should, because of ridiculous health care costs. The compensation employers dedicate for our health benefits comes from the same pool of money they would use to increase our wages.”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“ClinicPriceCheck.com,”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“We are the ones paying for health care, not your employer, an insurance company, or the government. If you won’t protect your money, they’re going to keep taking more of it. The customer is always right, but health care power players don’t consider you their most important customer. Even though you are the one paying for your health care and undergoing the treatment, the industry players are teaming up to enrich themselves. The business of medicine exploits your sickness for profit. It’s life and death for you. It’s dollars and cents for them. And the system is not operating in good faith. The health care industry wastes obscene amounts of your money. The solution isn’t to keep taking more money from you. The solution is to reduce the waste so you pay less. Our health care system is not broken. It was made this way. Our elected officials and health care companies have had decades to reduce health care costs. If they wanted to fix the problem, they could. We must stop being naïve and realize that saving our money is not their intent. So we need to stick up for ourselves and demand that the system change. If we don’t, the exploitation of our sickness will never stop. I”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“Private health insurers allow so much fraud that prosecutors use an idiom to describe the rare person who gets caught: “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

“HealthcareBluebook.com or FairHealthConsumer.org to see if the prices are fair. The Bluebook site gathers payment information from employers who fund their own health plans and publishes what it calls its fair price for a service or procedure. The Fair Health site does something similar, but its data comes from what insurers pay.”
― Marshall Allen, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win