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by ageitgey 6y ago
I think part of it is that there is a huge difference in cost between some facilities. But another part of it is that a lot of hospitals don't really know what they charge. They had to scramble and hire consultants to come up with th
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Fun fact - I'm a cofounder of this and a US citizen, but I live in London. I agree completely with this. I spend my days working on US healthcare data and seeing how crazy it is while I use the NHS for my actual care. But the US system
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by ageitgey 6y ago
We do have plans for an api, but we are currently working out the model for it - feel free to get in touch via the site and let us know you are interested and what you might want to do with it.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Definitely true - quality and price are only very loosely related. Right now we have care quality information on the hospital "information" page, but most people aren't finding it in the current design and we are going to re-
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look! If you don't mind, would you mind dropping me an email at adam@turquoise.health with the zip code you are trying?
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Thanks, we're working on figuring out the best way to represent those and maybe making them more location-specific. Even with median prices, it doesn't always make sense to show a country-wide median since there is a huge differen
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by ageitgey 6y ago
This is in the works! We hope to implement this as soon as we've cross-referenced all the plans across providers.
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Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies(turquoise.health)
447 points by ageitgey 6y ago|374 comments
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by ageitgey 6y ago
My friends in Geneva tell me that this has been a thing there for a long time. It has some pretty bizarre effects on the market (according to my friends): 1. House prices rise to the point where the down payment is essentially the price of
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by ageitgey 6y ago
This is Andrew Mason's baby (of Groupon fame). They've been working on it for several years and it looks really great.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
NOIDS is an outbreak detection program. The idea is if a primary care doctor suspects someone has something important and unexpected, like Cholera or Polio, they can let the disease control authorities know so they they can be on the lookou
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by ageitgey 6y ago
First time. The side effects were not a big deal at all, but they were more than I get from a flu shot.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I got the real thing, but they are still working on the trial unblinding procedure with the regulator. They want to keep the trial running as long as possible to get longer-term data (understandable) but it is also pote
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by ageitgey 6y ago
No, I've felt fine after the initial day or so of side effects. With the booster shot, I had similar but even less intense and shorter side effects. FWIW, I usually get no side effects with a flu shot but others get more so I'm su
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Nah
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Oxford. Side effects were just a day of feeling half-crummy. Not a big deal.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I was a vaccine trial participant and got injected 6 months ago. I'm still alive. AMA.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> If The Witness weren't made by Braid's author, I seriously doubt it would've gotten any sizeable traction. The Witness got a lot of initial attention because of the author, but it is also one of the games I enjoyed playi
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Yeah, it's one of the most fun puzzle games ever. But it's not a mobile-style quick play game like this where you solve a series of puzzles. It's more of a world you walk around where you find the puzzles sitting around in th
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> Duration of immunity? I've heard a minimum of 3-4 months reported, possibly longer, but do we know more now? The only way to know for sure is to wait and see. But patients vaccinated for SARS in ~2004 still show immune responses n
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> For an individual, however, 70% would not feel very reassuring, which is why we need a lot of people getting vaccinated. Agreed, but keep in mind that no one in the Oxford trial who got the vaccine got a serious case of COVID or needed
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by ageitgey 6y ago
On one hand, all of these vaccine trials excluded people who already had COVID, so we don't fully know what the effect would be in large numbers. However at least one person with COVID immunity accidentally got into the Oxford Phase 1&
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by ageitgey 6y ago
They are in a similar stage - near reporting initial Phase 3 results but no exact date as to when that will happen given in public.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Here's the deal, since this issue comes up regularly in Hacker News comments: It is 'not illegal' to time an announcement to benefit yourself if you have a 10b5-1 plan in place that automatically sells your stock on a fixed s
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I just use a simple time tracking program in my menu bar to track hours against projects with short comments. Then when it's time to invoice, I go into QuickBooks and make a new invoice (you can clone an existing one for the same clien
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Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-hospitalised individuals(uk-cic.org)
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You can avoid the NYT paywall by literally just hitting the Stop button in Chrome after the page has displayed but the paywall JS is still loading/rendering. It works 100% of the time for me.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
That's right. Out of ~18,000 people total across 3 countries (UK, South Africa and Brazil), there have been 3 reported events requiring a pause, of which two involved people who got the real vaccine and one who got the placebo. Keep in
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by ageitgey 6y ago
No, that's completely wrong. The person who died was in the control group: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54634518 They don't release more details officially due to patient confidentiality, bu
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by ageitgey 6y ago
The word jab is standard UK English for 'shot'. It might be slightly informal, but it's definitely standard to see it in the news and in government publications. Example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health

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