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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by chillwaves on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:41PM (#18779676)
How can there be competition when there is no price transparency? No ability for the consumer to shop around?

How does anything about the way medical care is administered in the US work in the context of the mythical "free market"?

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Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit... by hathawsh on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:49PM (#18779728)
Chargemasters may be going online as early as next week:

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/put-chargemaster-...

It's not clear that this will have the intended effect (since insurance always pays a heavily discounted price), but I think it's a step in the right direction.

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