Shopping
around January 16, 2020 -- In Even With Hospital Price Lists, 'Shopping Around' Still Difficult, Medscape observes that, "despite a federal mandate that hospitals publish price lists, comparing prices among hospitals can be very confusing, and information remains limited". It's a mess. You just can't figure out what your health care is going to cost you. We have complained that this should be one of the functions of healthcare portals, and their failure to provide this service is one of the reasons portals suck. Evidently we are not alone in this. |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798