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Hospitals are one of those things that just shouldn't be run like a for-profit business. There should be regulated set amounts for how much various services cos
by a13n 7y ago
Hospitals are one of those things that just shouldn't be run like a for-profit business. There should be regulated set amounts for how much various services cost, and those amounts should be equal (or at least close) to what the government/insurance programs cover.
It's bonkers to me how much resources and technology we have as a species, and how we decide to not let people access it because money/capitalism.
Obviously the US is notably worse at this than other countries, and it doesn't feel like we're on a path to fixing it.
- gbacon 7y agoEconomics 101: Price controls create shortages. Note that I’m not defending the broken U.S. system, but attempting to fix it with price controls will exacerbate its problems.
- Jotra7 7y agoTell that to every other country that has socialized medicine that has cheaper services with better outcomes. The casualness with which you declare its Economics 101 shows how ignorant and brainwashed Americans are.
- 2trill2spill 7y agoSure, but US hospitals are also known to charge up to 1000% more then a procedure actually costs[1]. That should be illegal. [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-some-hospitals-can-get-away-with-price-gouging-patients-study-finds/2015/06/08/b7f5118c-0aeb-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html?utm_term=.27ff0b2e8c0e https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-s...
- conanbatt 7y agoSoftware charges 1000000000% its costs, maybe it should be made illegal as well.
- 2trill2spill 7y agoI highly doubt that any company charges that much of a premium for software, you have any sources or examples?
- conanbatt 7y agoTake any digital book sale from amazon.
- 2trill2spill 7y agoSeriously, book publishing is your example? You know writing, editing and publishing a book takes a lot of time and skill. Also the majority of book authors are not making out like bandits on books sales, even digital ones. Book Authors and Publishers are not making 1000000000% on digital book sales, otherwise we would probably see Goldman Sachs in the book publishing/writing business.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoHealthcare is not your typical market.
- conanbatt 7y agoIn the US is not a free market, which is more important than its typicity.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoA free market for healthcare behaves even worse than a regulated one in terms of actual benefit to society.
- conanbatt 7y agoWhat makes you think that?
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- Jotra7 7y agoAmazing how you are being downvoted. Capitalists being inhuman scum like normal.
- mrosett 7y agoThere’s no evidence that non-profit hospitals perform better (or worse) than for-profit hospitals.
- maxxxxx 7y agoNon profit hospitals are for-profit for administrators and their friends who run a construction company or similar. A lot of them are very corrupt.