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> ate the cost. If they ate the cost, someone else paid for it. Which means that prices in general take this into account. I'm not judging OP, but saying that
by conanbatt 9y ago
> ate the cost.
If they ate the cost, someone else paid for it. Which means that prices in general take this into account. I'm not judging OP, but saying that the ability to apply that technique is not= the solution to the general problem. (Healthcare is expensive).
- verbatim 9y agoYour assumption that "someone else paid for it" only holds if the price was directly tied to external costs and not their own profit.
- conanbatt 9y agoSo you say investors pay for it? Very generous on their behalf.
- tmnvix 9y agoIf a client rejects my initial quote but accepts my lower one (for exactly the same service), did I also 'pay for it'?
- conanbatt 9y agoIf the other clients pay the higher quote, and thus it is a better strategy for you to put a higher price whichonly a few haggle, you didn't pay for it. The rest of the customers subsidize the haggler.
- laretluval 9y agoIt's likely that the cost was nowhere near $12000. These huge bills are often the result of runaway price inflation and system-gaming and are totally untethered from cost.
- Pokepokalypse 9y agoYes, they are fucking over someone else, by padding their bill, and hoping their insurance pays for it - which is why most of us are paying $2000+ /month, if we have an employer-provided plan. (keeps the real costs concealed from the people who are paying).
- chrismcb 9y agoSure. But not exactly. No more than you paid extra when the bus boy dropped a load of dishes and broke them. In this case a mistake was made, and the business are the cost. It might have meant prices went up the following year, but I doubt it, as that wasn't really that much money.