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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by wkearney99 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:29PM (#20281644)
This greatly ignores the reality that in a community, when prices are known, there's a collective understanding of which places (regardless of industry) are more expensive than others. And whether the cost difference are justified based on, again, collective experience.

So, no, of course no one is going to fire up the equivalent of GasBuddy when they're in an ambulance. You no doubt already know this, so why make such a ludicrous argument?

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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by michaelmrose on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:19AM (#20281883)
Because deputizing the government to negotiate down prices is a saner alternative to keeping costs of emergency services down given that the actual cost depends on so many factors that your analysis is extremely faulty.

The only substantially cheaper across the board hospitals are those people go to die in because they are profoundly incompetent and understaffed.

Hi "Mason General Hospital" in Washington State.

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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by Fjolsvith on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:12AM (#20284148)
> The only substantially cheaper across the board hospitals are those people go to die in because they are profoundly incompetent and understaffed.

...And tend to get sued out of business for malpractice.

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Re:Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Pric... by jjwhitaker on Thursday June 27, 2019 @03:24PM (#20297684)
Which is a form of government regulation allowing punishment of poor/illegal performance. Medicare for all or a universal solution could enforce quality across all healthcare providers while simplifying negotiation not only as the federal government would be the only client to barter with but could make policy restricting costs or overhead in a careful manner.
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