Re:Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
by bombcar on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:50PM
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No, very quickly everyone would know the hospitals that charge way more than the others, and not patronize them.
Emergency services are only like 5% of costs, anyway [367]:
> The percentage of U.S. health spending attributable to the ED has increased from 3.9% (CI, 3.9%-3.9%) in 2006 to 5.0% (CI, 5.0%-5.0%) in 2016.
So the other 95% is more flexible. I know when looking at birthing costs they could vary wildly but it didn't really matter because who cares, they're all in-network anyway.
Emergency services are only like 5% of costs, anyway [367]:
> The percentage of U.S. health spending attributable to the ED has increased from 3.9% (CI, 3.9%-3.9%) in 2006 to 5.0% (CI, 5.0%-5.0%) in 2016.
So the other 95% is more flexible. I know when looking at birthing costs they could vary wildly but it didn't really matter because who cares, they're all in-network anyway.
[367] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...