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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by cheez on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:51AM (#18769709)
When you remove the middlemen, what will you replace them with?
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by lallysingh on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:02AM (#18769770)
Tiny bits of software.
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by cheez on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:04AM (#18769783)
What's the purpose of the software?
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by RhodesianHunter on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:21AM (#18769903)
Replacing the middle men
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by _asummers on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:39AM (#18770045)
Middle man out algorithms
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by cheez on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:20PM (#18771777)
Is the software written by people who would not profit from the software?
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by 50656E6973 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:02PM (#18772130)
Could be an open standard
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by cheez on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:22PM (#18773870)
This is quickly degenerating into... an xkcd comic
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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by Nasrudith on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:02AM (#18776286)
Middlemen are not indispensable - they need to justify their existence not others to justify their absence. The whole point of cutting out the middlemen is to force them to go from a parasitic role to offer some sort of actual utility for their price.

If the middlemen have something of value to offer they have little to fear - just someone to buy gasoline by the tanker for instance keeps gas station middle-men safe because they provide both a workable connection between logistics of the very large production and consumer scale amounts - in addition to the distribution.

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