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Healthcare is the most heavily regulated consumer oriented industry in the United States. This is a summary of the most heavily regulated consumer market in the

Healthcare is the most heavily regulated consumer oriented industry in the United States. This is a summary of the most heavily regulated consumer market in the country and a government abusing its regulatory authority to prevent workers from freely participating in the labor market. Nothing about the healthcare market is a free market. Want to know how much your procedure is going to cost before you're expected to pay for it? No, price discovery/transparency is not a thing. Want to shop for the best price? Not possible. Want to switch healthcare providers? You'll need to change your job, and if you're not lucky enough to have employer sponsored/controlled healthcare, you'll have to wait until the new year. You're a healthcare worker who's being mistreated/underpaid by your employer and you want to quit and get a better job on the "open" job market? The government won't let you do that.

nosianu 5y ago
> Healthcare is the most heavily regulated consumer oriented industry in the United States. Did those regulations pertain to this labor dispute? If not then I think this is a strawman. > a government abusing its regulatory authority to prevent workers from freely participating in the labor market. and > The government won't let you do that. It wasn't the government that gave that ruling. Since as bewaretheirs says in their comment elsewhere that ruling was vacated it was not even any law made by government that you can blame. > Want to know how much your procedure is going to cost before you're expected to pay for it? No, price discovery/transparency is not a thing. And that intransparency is something mandated by government? I'm asking, I don't know, it surprises me from what I know from just following discussions. The government prevents hospitals and MDs from disclosing their prices?
- jtc331 5y ago
  The court is a part of the government so when they do something it’s accurate to say “the government did…”

nosianu 5y ago

> Healthcare is the most heavily regulated consumer oriented industry in the United States. Did those regulations pertain to this labor dispute? If not then I think this is a strawman. > a government abusing its regulatory authority to prevent workers from freely participating in the labor market. and > The government won't let you do that. It wasn't the government that gave that ruling. Since as bewaretheirs says in their comment elsewhere that ruling was vacated it was not even any law made by government that you can blame. > Want to know how much your procedure is going to cost before you're expected to pay for it? No, price discovery/transparency is not a thing. And that intransparency is something mandated by government? I'm asking, I don't know, it surprises me from what I know from just following discussions. The government prevents hospitals and MDs from disclosing their prices?

jtc331 5y ago
The court is a part of the government so when they do something it’s accurate to say “the government did…”