The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by lkbm on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:48PM (#25934468)

Here are some things in the current system I'm hoping a single payer system would fix:

* I walk in, and they can tell me right away whether I will be billed or not. There's no "we'll see" and then maybe I get a bill in a few weeks.

* I walk in to a different doctor's office and the answer as to whether I'm billed or not is the same as at the other doctor.

* Because of these first two items, I walk in and they can tell me ahead of time what my bill will be.

* We can now replace "walk in" with "check their websites (or call) and comparison shop".

Maybe they can't tell me if my treatment is taxed until I'm diagnosed, but that still gives me the option to find out my bill before treatment. Once I'm diagnosed, if it's non-urgent I can shop around.

Price transparency is non-existent in US healthcare. There's no big mystery as to why that would cause inefficiency and absurd costs.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by giantg2 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:26PM (#25935613)

Insurance companies do have tools to price compare between facilities. I've used it on my insurance company's website. Manh states have price transparency requirements for cash payers too.

Edit: Why downvote? It's all true.

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Re:The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company by vidarh on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:58AM (#25942679)

The fact that there is a need for tools like that demonstrates the complexity of the current system.

Apart from being extremely expensive.

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