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Re:How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater by tibbon on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:35PM (#6274245)
Clearly, its a problem a free market will efficiently fix and prices will stay low. </sarcasm>
Re:How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater by chrismonsanto on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:40PM (#6274259)
At least price transparency worked for surgeries in a hospital in Oklahoma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014794

Perhaps a similar approach could work for IVs.

Re:How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater by dnautics on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:52PM (#6274292)
the best solution is obviously some kind of public-private partnership, so that we can get the best parts of the public sector with the best parts of the private sector. There's no way we'll wind up with the worst parts of both.