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It's just mindboggling that pricing in medical is so opaque. Mandating transparent pricing should be the number one reform everybody should be able to agree wit
by maxxxxx 8y ago
It's just mindboggling that pricing in medical is so opaque. Mandating transparent pricing should be the number one reform everybody should be able to agree with.
- maxerickson 8y agoIt would be massively politically unpopular as it would tear the mask off of Medicare and Medicaid.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWhat mask?
- maxerickson 8y agoThey get praised for being financially efficient but it isn't really clear that they pay the costs of the services they mandate.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWell then let's clear that up and see if what you say is true.
- maxerickson 8y agoSure, good idea. But we circle back to my original point, politicians have no interest in doing that.
- h4b4n3r0 8y ago>> everybody should be able to agree with We’ll see about that in the next couple of years. This was one of the more prominent campaign promises by Trump, and the dude has a habit of actually following through on that, whether you like it or not.
- happytoexplain 8y agowhether you like it or not Why would you insert hostility that appears to be a response to something that doesn't exist in the parent comment?
- allthenews 8y agoProbably because any even implicit support for trump is dangerous on the internet, hence the qualifier.
- jarfil 8y agoI saw no hostility. Are you sure you're not hostile hourself?
- FireBeyond 8y ago"Trump will do this, whether you like it or not". No-one said anything about Trump's ability, or lack thereof, to do this, or their perspective on such abilities. So yeah, hostility.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI wouldn't call it hostile. Defensive seems a better word. In any case let's see him follow through on that. But I would like to see some real steps and not just discussions with some business leaders, maybe some nasty tweets, declaring victory and then forgetting about it.
- h4b4n3r0 8y agoNo hostility intended. Trump literally doesn't care if someone likes it or not. He promised it, it's happening, end of story.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWhat happened with the "wonderful" health plan he promised? Did that happen?
- HarryHirsch 8y agoMandating transparent pricing should be the number one reform In normal countries patients manage to do without shopping around suppliers altogether, but in the US that very fact is unimaginable to many. People outsource all sorts of things, Gusto is a YC company that companies use to do payroll, but Americans cannot imagine that the civilized world has outsourced prescription medicine pricing to the government and that it gets a good deal.
- drblast 8y agoAmericans can imagine that just fine; it's just harder to imagine our government handling this in a beneficial way.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoOur government is a reflection of us, if we demanded a better system we'd get it, the problem is that we hate other Americans and want to hurt them far more than we want to help ourselves.
- dang 8y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or snarky comments to Hacker News? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- maxxxxx 8y agoIn a lot of countries pricing is not outsourced to the government but it's regulated and transparent. The big problem in the US is that the involved parties intentionally make pricing opaque.