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The main difficulty is that the penalty is laughable. $300/day doesn't even begin to cover a single well-paid IT professional who can handle this project, let
by antisthenes 5y ago
The main difficulty is that the penalty is laughable.
$300/day doesn't even begin to cover a single well-paid IT professional who can handle this project, let alone a team with resources.
It may seem trivial to HN audience to comply (hey, just do a SQL query and post the resulting CSV!), but hospital IT systems are oftentimes legacy dinosaurs, so a transparency project like this could cost millions of $ to undertake.
Why pay millions, when you can simply pay a measly penalty of ~$109,000 year after year?
- dml2135 5y ago100k is only this year, it goes up to $2mil tomorrow. Your point still stands though, even that is possibly not high enough
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoIf you can't extract pricing data from your existing IT infrastructure for less than US$2M, you've got deeper problems than this law (or you use one of the Big Three consulting companies for all your IT work)