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Friday Links

Posted on December 16, 2022 by John C. Goodman

As many as 250,000 people die every year because they are misdiagnosed in the emergency room, with doctors failing to identify serious medical conditions like stroke, sepsis and pneumonia.

Against a carbon tax.

Can entrepreneurs solve the problem of hospital price transparency?

Can you raise a family on one income?

Why private entrepreneurs are sometimes better than public health bureaucracies.

1 thought on “Friday Links”

  1. Bob Hertz says:
    December 16, 2022 at 1:48 pm

    Thanks for posting the interview from Health Care Blog on price transparency. I did not fully understand the business concept as described in the interview. I could not really tell who the customers were or how the vendor made any money. I might listen to it again….

    Price transparency will not be easy to install. Let’s say that my doctor recommends me for hip replacement surgery. Yes, I want to know the sticker price at the ABC hospital where the surgery is scheduled…..but what I really want to know is the net cost to me after the insurance has paid its share.

    The XYZ hospital across town may have a lower sticker price, but big deal if they are not in my network. Also, most medical procedures have ten or twenty or more “sub-codes” depending the seriousness of my impairment….

    and then there is the justifiable “caveat” that I might have a heart attack during the surgery or something like that, which makes all quoting irrelevant.

    I am no stranger to price transparency. I worked for a firm that maintained a quoting system for term life insurance. Medical procedures are much tougher!!

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