Thank you! Yes! This is what I tell people all the time. You wanna attack healthcare costs? Figure out how to fix the damn prices.
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We need price controls like every other country has. They've all figured it out. We're just too ideologically blindered to consider it.
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And our pharma corps and specialists and device makers and hospitals are used to making more money than they do in other countries.
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We should have never let a profit motive into healthcare. Now it's like trying to remove a tick that's embedded in our skin.
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There's a private, for-profit layer between providers and insurance companies that sets pricing norms.
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Besides transparency, the other related issue is artificial barriers to entry in the medical professions. I'd love to see a piece on that.
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There are some states/hospital systems that are trying to increase transparency in pricing. http://utpricepoint.org isa good example.
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It's not perfect, but, a beginning.
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My wife recently had a $22k E-room visit. Our ins allowed $1k of it & the hospital wrote down the rest. In what world does this make sense?
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I've been talking about this for months. Thank you!http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/14/the-future-of-medicine-this-surgery-center-provides-patients-a-menu-of-options-with-set-prices-video/ …
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This is an excellent article
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Premiums, deductibles and prices all for insurance company profits. Common demoninator? The Insurance industry.
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Thank you! This is completely insane.
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I applaud your project. I paid $4000 dollars for a 10 minute office visit to pull surgical pins from feet. Keep going!
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Its outrageous how 'secret' pricing is. You can't get a straight answer from anyone..this is fundamentally wrong.
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Why aren't Plaintiffs' lawyers pursuing these as claims? Many states have laws that would make this actionable in any other context.
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an easy step one would be letting medicare negotiate prices (which you pointed out), surprised this hasn't gotten more bipartisan support
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"Hasn't gotten more bipartisan support" is an interesting way of phrasing "blocked by Republicans for over a decade"https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/washington/18cnd-medicare.html …
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What so many in our industry have been saying for so long. But you left out
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