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Mandating transparent pricing should be the number one reform In normal countries patients manage to do without shopping around suppliers altogether, but in th
by HarryHirsch 8y ago
Mandating 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.