Re:US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums
by conanbatt on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:58AM
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> You should know the price before you agree to buy the product' seems like such an innocuous principle. Why isn't their broad-based support of it for medical care?
This is not a probleam of health-care as much as it is of insurnace. If you paid doctors cash you will get straight up pricing.
Thing is the market is like 95% insurance.
I believe this will change in the near future. High-deductible plans and DPC's will bring back some sane price sensitivty into the system. But while patients with great PPO plans pay 20 bucks for a 300 dollar visit, its not going to get fixed itself by "posting prices somewhere"
This is not a probleam of health-care as much as it is of insurnace. If you paid doctors cash you will get straight up pricing.
Thing is the market is like 95% insurance.
I believe this will change in the near future. High-deductible plans and DPC's will bring back some sane price sensitivty into the system. But while patients with great PPO plans pay 20 bucks for a 300 dollar visit, its not going to get fixed itself by "posting prices somewhere"