Senator John McCain casts deciding vote against "Skinny Repeal"

[DonFerrari]

sethnintendo said:

Mr Puggsly said:

You could argue US healthcare is less regulated than single payer countries.

But a free market it's not.

With hidden pricing.  Amazing you don't know how much things cost till all is said and done.  This benefits the hospitals and pricing can vary widely between hospitals in the same area.

 

Here is a genius thought...  Why don't we make pricing more transparent and make hospitals produce a list and price of their procedures.  You know so the average citizen can maybe shop around for the best price for quality of service.  I mean we made fast food start listing calories of their meals so why not demand hospitals list prices.

There are several companies trying to compose lists and pricing such as Castlight health but that depends on if they team up with your employer.  Oh and if government backed out completely I would expect nothing but this shit show to continue.  We are dominated by only a few big companies when it comes to insurance.  You think they will all of sudden have a friendly competition and start lowering prices.  USA is full of monopolies now in every sector of business.

You know that cost structure is a sensitive information that basically defines if a company is competitive or not and that releasing that information is basically the destruction of a company? You already have the price they charge to decide if you want to pay or not and for publically traded companies you have their accountability release where you can see how much is their profit margins and verify if they are overcharging or just the cost itself is high.

Ka-pi96 said:

DonFerrari said:
Waiting for the day anything provided by the government will net being cheaper than the population paying themselves directly since when government provides it's actually population paying through taxes with added cost of corruption, inefficiency, interference and overhead.
But good for VGC users that know how much good government involvement in market is, right?

For many people it is cheaper being provided by the government than them paying directly though. Not everybody is rich...

Yes, because other people would be paying. Read again where I put POPULATION and not single person.