What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by conanbatt on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:42AM (#18723140)

Price controls never work. Its bad economics.

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by kwhitefoot on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:02AM (#18723677)

Works in this context in several European countries. Switzerland for instance has compulsory insurance schemes where the prices are regulated and the insurer cannot refuse to insure.

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by conanbatt on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:26AM (#18726254)

I'd be surprised to hear of a case where price controls work, since it would go contrary to the core tenets of micro-economics. Do you have a link where I could read your source about this?

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by kwhitefoot on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:57AM (#18745466)

Just search the web. For instance DDG

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Switzerland+compulsory+health+insu...

gives this as the first hit:

https://www.ch.ch/en/basic-health-insurance-services/

There is also this from a non-Swiss point of view:

https://www.expatica.com/ch/healthcare/healthcare-basics/hea...

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by conanbatt on Monday December 24, 2018 @10:45AM (#18752608)

At 450EU a month, i would not this a success of "price controls".

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