Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care

Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by dlp211 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:57PM (#20278876)

While true, 20% of a large number is still a large number. It's easy to disregard these people, but they should not be disregarded. They have suffered directly due to the privatization of hospitals and the requirement to satisfy stockholders.

Also, I'm not against price transparency, but I'm highly skeptical that it will improve anything. The reasons should be quite apparent but price setters will settle on or near the highest prices since everyone in the system is incentivized to do so. It also doesn't solve the problem that many people pay a $N copay noatter what the price is due to insurance. And the third issue is the in and out of network problem.

When you consider all these, along with the lack of choice for pretty much everyone, it isn't going to change anything.

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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by jessaustin on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @05:40PM (#20279269)

Nobody wants to "disregard" rural patients. Rural patients would also like to know the price they'll be charged after driving 1.5 hours. Often we have a choice among several faraway towns to which we could drive. We've made our peace with the fact that living in the sticks requires driving further.

This argument is too dumb to qualify as sophistry.

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