UPMC

I wonder if UPMC is raising everyone's rates by 40% or just the Highmark customers? 

Hi.  We're your paying customers who have been going to UPMC doctors & facilities & have been paying your bills.  We will not forget your choice to price us out of your services...

just saying....

You never forget when you've been treated badly.

And when given the choice - we may opt for non UPMC.  You don't own this town like you think - or maybe you do...

Seems like a monopoly to me -- especially after taking over Children's Hospital (which by the way, is one of the nicest facilities I've been to), but now it may be out of my reach after 2013 because UPMC apparently has decided they can charge however much they want.   They can almost double the price if they want.  And that's okay?  And - i guess - that somehow fits within our new health care reform?  Can anyone explain how that works?  Really?

It seems like it could be an opportunity for some well known pediatric medical types to swoop in & establish themselves here in the Pittsburgh area & pick up a lot of new patients.

There might be plenty of insured folks looking for other health care facilities and doctors because UPMC is in a position to take advantage & they seem to be doing so...