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This is something that I've been wanting to try to implement within my local government, but there's just no easily enforceable way to do so. The agreements are
by notaustinpowers 3y ago
This is something that I've been wanting to try to implement within my local government, but there's just no easily enforceable way to do so. The agreements are private, so what information should be shared? How can this information be verified? What are the punishments for not complying? Who will enforce the punishments? Is it a self-report database?
Unfortunately, many of these questions are something that no local government wants to tackle or even attempt to enforce. Especially when we get into the more under-the-counter transactions like Mike paying Bob $500/month to live in his basement with a handshake agreement.
Maybe a self-report online database could be beneficial, but then the concern becomes getting users, ensuring the information is fresh and routinely updated, etc. Not even taking profitability into consideration.
- zie 3y agoWe managed to do it with health care (well OK we are still in the rolling out period), but it's slowly happening.
- notaustinpowers 3y agoTo a degree, yes, but the healthcare industry is also obfuscating the data as best as it can. Such as using proprietary codes instead of procedure names. Yes, the data is there, but unless you work at that specific hospital and understand their codes, it's essentially useless. It could happen, but with how effective NIMBYs are on a local government level, and how strong of a hold NAR has in federal lobbying, I can see any legitimate legislation dying before they even come to a vote.
- zie 3y agoI know when the data first started being published, there were projects to make sense of it all. I can't imagine they all failed, though I don't have any sources to back that up right now. I remember seeing a few on HN back in the day, but I can't seem to find any of them now(not that I tried very hard).
- splitstud 3y ago[dead]