have you ever asked a doctor or nurse (not dentist) what a procedure will cost before consenting to it?
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my hypothesis about this is that in the US the economics of health care are enormously distorted because it is taboo to ask about costs up front because this violates the sacredness of life, which we must pretend is not a question of money
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That's a factor, but it's also exacerbated by explicit cost obfuscation; I've asked, and often they *just don't know* how much it will be. I get bills in the mail with one number, then the next day a revised bill with a different number, and I never know what to pay.
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they definitely don't know, yeah, but i suspect that's a feedback loop: they don't know partly because they so often don't have to know
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