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Trump administration requires hospitals to post their standard prices online
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2018 Apr 25, 10:59am 1,887 views 3 comments
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Ceffer
2018 Apr 25, 11:24am
Ceffer
2018 Apr 25, 11:24am
Do they get the cash and carry menu, or the egregious insurance sucking menu for show and write-off?
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Goran_K
2018 Apr 25, 11:28am
Goran_K
2018 Apr 25, 11:28am
Why wasn't this a policy for decades?
Why is price transparency so hard in the health care industry?
Why is price transparency so hard in the health care industry?
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Patrick
2018 Apr 25, 11:42am
Patrick
2018 Apr 25, 11:42am
Ceffer says
Yes, it is still a major problem that the prices vary all over the place depending on who you are. That's bad. Everyone should be charged the same price for the same thing.
Goran_K says
It wasn't a policy for decades because price transparency makes it harder for medical providers to rape the public, and rape of the public is what every lobbyist wants more than anything else in the world.
You can easily see who is raping the public by how much money they have to spend on bribing congress to allow the rape to continue:
Note that the AMA and the Hospital association are way up there on the list of biggest rapists of the public.
Price transparency means people would be better able to shop for the most cost-effective treatment, and from the point of view of the AMA and Hospital Ass. such shopping must be prevented no matter what!
Do they get the cash and carry menu, or the egregious insurance sucking menu for show and write-off?
Yes, it is still a major problem that the prices vary all over the place depending on who you are. That's bad. Everyone should be charged the same price for the same thing.
Goran_K says
Why wasn't this a policy for decades?
Why is price transparency so hard in the health care industry?
It wasn't a policy for decades because price transparency makes it harder for medical providers to rape the public, and rape of the public is what every lobbyist wants more than anything else in the world.
You can easily see who is raping the public by how much money they have to spend on bribing congress to allow the rape to continue:
Note that the AMA and the Hospital association are way up there on the list of biggest rapists of the public.
Price transparency means people would be better able to shop for the most cost-effective treatment, and from the point of view of the AMA and Hospital Ass. such shopping must be prevented no matter what!
This is an excellent move by the Trump administration! Market pressure can bring medical prices down, but only if patients know what the prices are before being charged!
A good next step would be to require that medical providers charge everyone the same price for the same treatment.