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The overwhelming majority of healthcare dollars are not spent in emergency situations. If you decide to go to the doctor because of some pain in your neck that
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
The overwhelming majority of healthcare dollars are not spent in emergency situations. If you decide to go to the doctor because of some pain in your neck that's not an emergency decision. If the doctor tells you to get tests that's not an emergency decision, etc, etc.
You can go from healthy to cancer to treatment to more cancer (wash rinse repeat until you or the cancer is dead) without a single decision made under any meaningful time pressure.
- cheerlessbog 7y agoAnd the guy who goes to the ER with a serious heart problem gets admitted and leaves bankrupt? Seems important to avoid that. Even for the cancer - you're in the most stressful situation of your life, you want to evaluate prices? What about your vulnerable grampa? In the UK, where I'm originally from, I've never met anyone who wishes they had a role in evaluating healthcare pricing. In the US, I personally don't either.
- stale2002 7y agoMaking 90% of healthcare situations better, using transparent prices, is still a very good thing, even if it doesn't help with the 10% of edge cases.