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> competition always leads to lower prices I don't see how this could be true for emergency visits. Would an ambulance drive you to the cheapest hospital withi
by jplrssn 1y ago
> competition always leads to lower prices
I don't see how this could be true for emergency visits. Would an ambulance drive you to the cheapest hospital within some fixed radius?
- hamdingers 1y agoHospitals typically lose money on emergency visits and make it back on scheduled inpatient care and outpatient services. This would accelerate a poor performing hospital's demise, because ambulances will go to the closest one but patients who have options will look elsewhere.
- theptip 1y agoIf you now have two ERs within driving range, you have the choice to go to the cheaper one if you are conscious and in a stable enough condition to reflect. This is the sort of thing people already think about in the US.