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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:25PM (#16923842)
> I appreciate (and agree with) your concern for the disabled, but letting the government be in charge is a recipe for making everything worse.

Except we have pretty much the entire developed world's healthcare systems to debunk that claim. They have similar life expectancies, medical outcomes, infant mortality, access to care, wait times, etc. for half the cost.

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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by gregmac on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:09PM (#16924957)
Similar, sure, but US is ranked:

* 31st for Life Expectancy [1]

* 32nd in infant mortality [2]

* 5th for colorectal cancer survival [3]

* 1st for breast cancer survival [3]

* 19th for cervical cancer survival [3]

* 7th for heart attack mortality [3]

The actual numbers are reasonably close, but the cost is also about 25% more per captia [4] than the second highest-spending country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

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