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While that is a great point and should be done, one of the most dysfunctional part of the healthcare system is that the end user / patient doesn’t know how much they will pay if they opt to get a thing done. The obscurity of the price _before_ agreeing to get it done is not reflected at all in data which is 100% hindsight.

My old boss described it this way: without price transparency medical care isn’t a market, it’s a racket. And all of the managers in health care are working to remove price transparency to increase their margins.



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