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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by peteretep on Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:10AM (#18768215)
Are the prices that Medicare pay orders of magnitude different? ISTR that Medicare and the VA both pay about $10k per patient per year, which I think is comparable with the NHS. No sources as this is half-remembered.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by bbddg on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:24AM (#18769273)
People on Medicare are over 65 and people in the VA have been in the military. Both of those groups of people are going to have much higher medical needs than the general population.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by TwoHeadedBeast on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:28AM (#18768699)
NHS spending is £2892 per person/year, that's quite a bit lower.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by bboreham on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:08AM (#18769014)
Interesting, this paper gives £2256 (table 2) https://www.health.org.uk/sites/default/files/AutumnBudgetWh...

This page gives $4246: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by peteretep on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:48AM (#18768937)
Huh, that's much lower than I thought.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by DanBC on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:51AM (#18768951)
There's a bit of complication because we're comparing one system with not much insurance with a different system that has a lot of insurance.

Here's a nice run through of the numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42950587

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by philtar on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:30AM (#18768515)
We would also need to know the average number of visits per patient before this data means anything otherwise it's just data without context or meaning.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by neffy on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:07AM (#18769498)
US health spending in aggregate is between 2-3% more than comparable European countries. Life expectancy is several years lower.
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