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Good luck getting a price like this in writing in advance. I have not been able to get doctors or hospitals to tell me what a procedure would cost in advance at
by jrochkind1 5y ago
Good luck getting a price like this in writing in advance. I have not been able to get doctors or hospitals to tell me what a procedure would cost in advance at all. "So you're telling the only way to find out how much it will cost is to get it done and then see the bill?" "Right".
An actually useful law might be:
Before an elective procedure, they need to give you the price in writing.
The actual price transparency law does not seem to have resulted in any price transparency.
- ddingus 5y agoMedical risks and unknowns are very high, and to make profit metrics, they need to push all risk onto the patient.
- Spivak 5y agoIf only there was a financial instrument I or the hospital could purchase where to amortize that risk over a long period of time by paying a fixed cost at some interval.
- ddingus 5y agoAnd when everyone buys in, the costs and risks are well distributed. Makes sense for everyone, healthy or not. After all, we are healthy, until we aren't.