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The problem with this thinking is you don't know what services you'll require (apart from routine checkups and specific treatments for already diagnosed problem
by sethev 10y ago
The problem with this thinking is you don't know what services you'll require (apart from routine checkups and specific treatments for already diagnosed problems). It does me no good to have a list of all the thousands of possible things a hospital might do along with a price for each one.
- rgbrenner 10y agoThat's definitely part of the problem too.. but that exists because of the pricing structure hospitals use. If I go into a store and buy a part, they don't say, well let me call the factory, and they'll get a list of all the things that were done to create this particular part, and a price for each. The store comes back with a list: Raw materials: $ Packing materials: $ Surcharge for production delay caused by spill: $ Resurfacing of part because of material defect: $ If a manufacturer tried that, they would be out of business immediately. Yet that's exactly what hospitals do, even down to a charge for the 2 cents worth of aspirin. In normal businesses, they charge a price for the product that covers the details, the mistakes, the extras required to delivery the product. The mistakes, etc are averaged out over all of the items produced, along with the cost of the misc supplies, equipment, etc.
- sethev 10y agoThe current system sucks but I have trouble picturing your alternative. If a person has abdominal pain it could be caused any number of things - some of which could have no cure at all and some of which will just go away on their own. What price list could they possibly consult?
- tehlike 10y agothat's a very good analogy. thank you.