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Agreed, but the article does explain why it costs absurd amount cost per mile. Unnecessary roles that don't reflect modern construction techniques, high union
by pcurve 9y ago
Agreed, but the article does explain why it costs absurd amount cost per mile. Unnecessary roles that don't reflect modern construction techniques, high union labor costs, regulations, and concession to people to minimize quality of life disruptions, etc. I'm all for fair wages, but $110+/hour or $225,000/year? Give me a break. You'd have lines going out to NJ if they open up the job to everyone at $85,000/year.
I work in healthcare and we all know WHY it costs outrageous amount here in the states, but nobody wants to fix it because EVERYBODY has his or her finger in the pie.
Yes, price gouging is a problem, but it's only side effect of a bad system. Healthcare is expensive because there are too many damn fingers in the pie, and nobody wants to pull his or hers out first.
Doctors, hospitals, private insurance, drug distributors, medical device makers, lawyers, pharma, pharmacists, physical therapy center. Guess what all these entities have? IT, HR, Sales & marketing, etc.
- shard972 9y agoI wish people could start with that premise in healthcare, that there isn't 1-2 big things causing the US healthcare system to be so expensive. So many people seem to always have a point about "Oh if we just moved everything to medicare" or "if we just repealed obamacare" as if there is a silver bullet. The only thing i think we can know for sure about why the US healthcare system is expensive, it's because of what you said, so many special interests groups that all work within the system and gouge each other every day to keep their heads above water.
- jessaustin 9y agoI almost wish we could forget for a moment that health care in USA is expensive, and pay attention instead to how quickly it is getting so much more expensive. Let's just stop the worst of the bleeding, and worry about solving all the problems later.
- mcny 9y agoWell it can't happen without price transparency. Transparency is good on it's own. Why does Google not want to make all salary and compensation information public? Why do insurance companies want to keep their contracts and payouts with hospitals secret? There is zero reason for these things to be secret. These things should be required to be public. We can't fix problems if we can't see them.