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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by spaetzleesser on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:04PM (#24975278)
“bonkers expensive station design.”

Sounds a little like American healthcare. Either super expensive but shiny care or either nothing or subpar care. No reasonable middle. I always wonder why all hospitals have to be super new with new devices.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by zdragnar on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:03PM (#24976171)
We choose which hospital to go to (barring an emergency) but aren't able to know what the cost of services will be; most human nature in that case will prefer to go to the one that looks better, as a proxy for more likely to get the right outcome.

A recent executive order by the president will force hospitals to reveal their pricing, but I'm not sure if that applies to actual negotiated prices for various insurance plans, or only to the phoney prices that they use for negotiating and noone actually pays.

Either way, a small ray of hope that things will change for the better soon.

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