By Kira Brekke, Intersections South LA, Feb 15, 2012
$21 for a single dose of Ibuprofen. $86 for an Ace Bandage. These are the prices hospitals all over the state are allegedly charging patients. And unionized health care workers and community leaders are not happy. Joanna Powers is a licensed vocational nurse at Western Medical Anaheim.
Read the full entire article here.
KPCC, Feb 15, 2012
A single Advil tablet costs around 8¢ at your local pharmacy, so would you be willing to pay $21 for one at a hospital? You might not have a choice if you’re in the hospital and $21 is the going-rate. Such extreme price mark-ups are evidence of “hospital price gouging,” according to union health care workers who are trying to stop it.
By Ashley Bailey, KPCC, Feb 14, 2012
Union health care workers spent their Valentine’s Day collecting signatures outside Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood for two initiatives they hope to get on the ballot this fall. The initiatives are both designed to reduce a practice workers call “hospital price gouging.”