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Re:SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby t... by jblazevic on Sunday July 08, 2018 @05:26AM (#17482869)
How is this practice of inflating prices while exploiting urgency and lack of choice not clearly fradulent and illegal?
Re:SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby t... by ekianjo on Sunday July 08, 2018 @05:32AM (#17482902)
There are emerging alternatives on the market:

https://reason.com/reasontv/2017/10/16/doctors-direct-primar...

Note that the current system is actively fighting off the development of such alternatives...