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>The best way to ensure fairness and efficiency is to get the data out there and available, and make healthcare more like a market instead of a black box. Mark
by sgt101 7y ago
>The best way to ensure fairness and efficiency is to get the data out there and available, and make healthcare more like a market instead of a black box.
Markets without perfect information are neither efficient or fair; I think it's reasonable to say that no healthcare market can have anything approximately resembling perfect information.
Also the idea of efficiency in healthcare is problematic. Does efficient healthcare means refusing care to old people and to people who need heroic interventions and instead focusing care only on interventions that provide a high return of healthy productive years per $?
I would like a clear articulation of efficient and fair in this context.
- sailfast 7y agoIf I could choose which hospital to go to based on available data, pricing, luxury levels, outcomes, etc so that I understood the costs I would incur (at a high level) to get that care, and then get quotes from different places, I think that would go a long way to ensuring at a minimum that folks understood what they were getting, rather than being forced toward outcomes due to lack of information. As for "efficient" and "fair" I would also be interested in a better definition there, one the article didn't quite provide to my satisfaction based on its question.
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- jwbwater 7y agoNo market has perfect information, but many still work pretty well. Just knowing what a healthcare service would cost before you get it would be a huge improvement in the US. And how about requiring providers to charge everyone the same price for the same service, instead of radically higher prices for the uninsured.