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I can't agree with this at all. Our family has four people in it. We've spent plenty of time and money on medical care in the past 18 years. Almost everything

I can't agree with this at all. Our family has four people in it. We've spent plenty of time and money on medical care in the past 18 years. Almost everything we've done medically, we could have made use of price transparency, if we had it. Yes, there are scenarios where the most important thing is to get emergency care as soon as possible. These are the exception--the rare exception--not the rule.

aiisjustanif 7y ago
> The rare exception Stop. It's not rare, 6% is not rare [1]. 10 states have 10% and above, up to 26%. Emergency room visits happen quite often enough. [1]: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/emergency-room-visits-by-ownership/?activeTab=map&currentTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=statelocal-government&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/emergency-room-vis...
- EpicEng 7y ago
  rare adjective (of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often. I'd say 6% fits that definition. You're also ignoring the fact that, for various reasons, people show up in an ER when they really didn't need to. This helps in the vast majority of cases and you're being needlessly argumentative.
- bhelkey 7y ago
  If a policy helps 94% of the time and is no better or worse 6% of the time, should we enact it?
- jjeaff 7y ago
  It's definitely rare. That's 6-10% of medical visits. Which tend to be made by a minority of people visiting very often. In fact, to use that stat per 1000 people is not very useful. Number of people per 1000 visiting a hospital for an emergency would be more helpful. I suspect it would be much less than even 1%.
- naasking 7y ago
  > Emergency room visits happen quite often enough. Many ER visits often happen because people can't afford insurance and preventative care. If this alleviates some of that by permitting more competition due to price transparency, then it will become even more rare.
  - aiisjustanif 7y ago
    1 out of 20 people get appendicitis. Appendicitis a lot of the time is handled at the ER, due to its sporadic and eminent nature.

aiisjustanif 7y ago

> The rare exception Stop. It's not rare, 6% is not rare [1]. 10 states have 10% and above, up to 26%. Emergency room visits happen quite often enough. [1]: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/emergency-room-visits-by-ownership/?activeTab=map&currentTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=statelocal-government&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/emergency-room-vis...

EpicEng 7y ago
rare adjective (of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often. I'd say 6% fits that definition. You're also ignoring the fact that, for various reasons, people show up in an ER when they really didn't need to. This helps in the vast majority of cases and you're being needlessly argumentative.
bhelkey 7y ago
If a policy helps 94% of the time and is no better or worse 6% of the time, should we enact it?
jjeaff 7y ago
It's definitely rare. That's 6-10% of medical visits. Which tend to be made by a minority of people visiting very often. In fact, to use that stat per 1000 people is not very useful. Number of people per 1000 visiting a hospital for an emergency would be more helpful. I suspect it would be much less than even 1%.
naasking 7y ago
> Emergency room visits happen quite often enough. Many ER visits often happen because people can't afford insurance and preventative care. If this alleviates some of that by permitting more competition due to price transparency, then it will become even more rare.
- aiisjustanif 7y ago
  1 out of 20 people get appendicitis. Appendicitis a lot of the time is handled at the ER, due to its sporadic and eminent nature.