Re:How to combat healthcare benefit costs as a startup
by tptacek on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:46PM
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Collusion between providers and insurers has, as an externality to the actual transaction taking place, severely distorted the market for medical services in the US. I'm not questioning whether insurers should be able to negotiate prices with providers.
If employer-sponsored health insurance wasn't the primary vehicle for medical expenses in the US, maybe you could get an actual price list for hospital services even in the face of aggressive negotiation. But it is, and so you can't, and any conversation about health expenses that tries to dodge that point is disingenuous. That's my point.
If employer-sponsored health insurance wasn't the primary vehicle for medical expenses in the US, maybe you could get an actual price list for hospital services even in the face of aggressive negotiation. But it is, and so you can't, and any conversation about health expenses that tries to dodge that point is disingenuous. That's my point.