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Seems really convenient to claim that because of an edge-case that no price-transparency is possible. Americans seem to have a habit of claiming things are imp
by stallmanite 7y ago
Seems really convenient to claim that because of an edge-case that no price-transparency is possible. Americans seem to have a habit of claiming things are impossible/infeasible that plenty of other western nations have managed to implement successfully decades ago.
Edit: To clarify I am an American myself and this irritates me.
- dv_dt 7y agoI don't claim it's impossible, but trying to point out that pricing and pretending that healthcare is like choosing one laundry detergent or another is simplistic. At the very least it pushes the complexity into trying to package a probabalistic fuzzy cloud of outcomes into a one price thing isn't an end all, and introduces all sorts of price gaming. At the very least, you increase the quoted price to cover some slice of probabilities - just like if you were a contractor quoting firm fixed price at a much higher cost. Personally, I favor what many other nations of done and that's setting a set of fair prices through an expert panel - nations like Japan, Germany, and France do that IIRC.