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Simply put "Couldn't afford the care? Should've shopped around!". It feels like a non-solution solution to access to healthcare. In theory it's great to have tr
by Klinky 4y ago
Simply put "Couldn't afford the care? Should've shopped around!". It feels like a non-solution solution to access to healthcare. In theory it's great to have transparency, but in reality this is just pushing responsibility & complexity onto patients, all to continue a facade that market-based economic models work well for patient care & will magically drive down costs.
- BurningFrog 4y agoI honestly don't understand your point. Do you also consider stores having price information bad? Would it be better if I went to Target, picked what I wanted, and then got a bill with the surprising cost 3 weeks later? > It feels like a non-solution solution to access to healthcare. That's correct. It addresses a different problem.
- Klinky 4y agoDo you have years of medical & diagnostic coding experience along with medical training to properly interpret pricing data for a multitude of procedures with wide ranging scenarios? You're not going to Target to buy Cheerios here. Pricing transparency is a band-aid on the gaping wound that is US healthcare. More numbers to consider that may or may not apply based on your insurance policy & other factors. Let's also add some middle-men to aggregate and "find the best price".