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Hospitals won’t tell you the costs of treatment ahead of time, even for easily predictable items like baby delivery. It’s impossible to shop around. https://yo
by empath75 8y ago
Hospitals won’t tell you the costs of treatment ahead of time, even for easily predictable items like baby delivery. It’s impossible to shop around.
https://youtu.be/Tct38KwROdw https://youtu.be/Tct38KwROdw
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoYes. And that's exactly the problem I'm complaining about and challenging you to find an example of in a loosely regulated market.
- empath75 8y agoThere’s no regulations preventing them from quoting prices to you.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThere's regulations that prevent them from being undercut by entities that are willing to have transparent pricing. The problem here is not lack of regulation. It is a lack of competition. Regulation forces providers to adopt a particular business model and that model allows the kind of pricing shenanigans we see. At the end of the day everything comes down to dollars and a lack of pricing information means it is not possible to compare like services across providers. Being able to compare supposedly interchangeable goods/services is a core part of the free market and it is missing from healthcare in the US.