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How is this true? If a medical procedure is the only thing between you and death how could you possibly negotiate a fair rate in the free market, especially con
by neaden 7y ago
How is this true? If a medical procedure is the only thing between you and death how could you possibly negotiate a fair rate in the free market, especially considering some treatments are monopolies if they have a patent on them. The free market cannot work in health care.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoThe majority of medical procedures are neither unique nor proprietary, and the majority of medical procedures are not to save someone from imminent death. In other words, most of the time people would have options and time to compare those options. Iff the conditions I described above obtained.
- gnaritas 7y ago> most of the time Not good enough.
- topmonk 7y agoThere should be an anti price gouging law which states that a doctor can only change their prices every month or something, and must publish them publicly. This could also include stats indicating with which percentage what procedures are done for a specific complaint. Ex, for a head injury, in 50% of cases an MRI was done at cost X. Then we could all use our internet connected phones to find the price instantly. If we are unconscious or decapitated at the time, we could set up a set up a ranking system beforehand weighing price, distance to hospital, and quality of service ratings.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoEven more minimally, just require them to publish their prices. If you change $10 fifteen time, $50 once, and $150 eight times for a procedure, publish all of that. And all group buyers should have to publish what they paid for each procedure too, to be fair to the doctors.