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I'm surprised there is no startup that sells you membership in offshore healthcare. If you want to do anything, you just jump on a short hop flight to a man mad
by xrd 7y ago
I'm surprised there is no startup that sells you membership in offshore healthcare. If you want to do anything, you just jump on a short hop flight to a man made island in international waters and get healthcare. Or, coupled with a trip to Thailand. It would be disruptive and cheaper.
My wife is a doctor and last night she tried to renew her credentials at a major hospital network here. She could not, despite clear instructions, open the PDF locally to add her signature. I inspected the web view in chrome tools and see it is an awful Microsoft product behind the scenes.
This is the reason this attempt by Trump will never happen (I'm supportive even though I despise Trump). My wife's incentives and the hospital incentives are aligned, even though no one will admit it. Even if hospitals are forced to give price transparency, they will just go and buy a shitty solution from Microsoft (I'm using Microsoft as a placeholder, but it can be any large tech company who wants in on the action), who will be happy to certify it for the law. It won't work and the hospitals can blame Microsoft. Microsoft will lobby politicians to water down the law so they won't pay anything but a pittance if things don't work. Consumers will get continually screwed. The doctors and the hospitals will continue to make great money because they will still not have to admit pricing this way, with zero transparency, is the golden goose of healthcare and why costs are insane in the US.