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Buy a donut, and you know before you buy how much it costs.
Want a house, you negotiate a price, before you buy. Same for a car or anything else you buy.
Go to a hospital and you are told how much it costs after you get the service or product.
That is wrong. In fact, there is a law that makes this illegal. "A state law, which went into effect in 2006, requires hospitals to provide, upon request, a written estimate of charges that an uninsured patient would be billed based on the service and length of stay.
But researchers found that only 28 percent of California's 353 acute-care hospitals responded to letters from a fictional uninsured patient seeking pricing information for a common elective procedure."
Time to enforce the law and allow hospitals to compete on the basis of quality as well as cost.
What do you think?
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Want a house, you negotiate a price, before you buy. Same for a car or anything else you buy.
Go to a hospital and you are told how much it costs after you get the service or product.
That is wrong. In fact, there is a law that makes this illegal. "A state law, which went into effect in 2006, requires hospitals to provide, upon request, a written estimate of charges that an uninsured patient would be billed based on the service and length of stay.
But researchers found that only 28 percent of California's 353 acute-care hospitals responded to letters from a fictional uninsured patient seeking pricing information for a common elective procedure."
Time to enforce the law and allow hospitals to compete on the basis of quality as well as cost.
What do you think?
More...