Americans’ anxiety about seeing their physicians is partly related to our health care system’s utter indifference to transparency caused by a lack of competition. The shortage of primary care physicians certainly doesn’t help. When your primary care physician’s schedule is fully booked you have few other options if you are not getting the information you need to manage your health. I have found that being clear and honest about being price sensitive helps.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Hospital Price Transparency
Effective January 1, 2021, Trump-era federal regulations require all hospitals accepting Medicare payments to fully disclose their standard charge for everything they do. Greg Dattilo and Dave Racer explain how well this requirement is working.
What’s Wrong with the PBM Market?
People who need expensive drugs are being overcharged so that drug insurance premiums can be artificially lowered for everyone – including all the people who don’t need those drugs. In this way, the sick are subsidizing the healthy.
Monday Links
- The US Olympic Team will get air conditioning in Paris, undermining the French goal of cutting carbon emissions.
- It pays to work for government.
- If you want to hunt a gray whale you have to be a member of the Makah tribe.
- 30% of our food supply goes uneaten and is thrown away.
- Two disabled adults stand to lose $5652 a year if they marry. (NYT)