"Basically we're inefficient from basically every direction in the USA"
This, and so much this. And I don't always understand this. To use the example here, billing codes: I'd think this is something that could be standardized - and being such, pricing would need to be standardized. I truly don't understand why this isn't coded into law.
The negotiation gets me as well - it means that no one can tell you a price. In a more perfect world, there would just be a price, and you could simply get the price from the hospital and it would be illegal for the hospitals to charge one price for cash patients and another for those with insurance.
This, and so much this. And I don't always understand this. To use the example here, billing codes: I'd think this is something that could be standardized - and being such, pricing would need to be standardized. I truly don't understand why this isn't coded into law.
The negotiation gets me as well - it means that no one can tell you a price. In a more perfect world, there would just be a price, and you could simply get the price from the hospital and it would be illegal for the hospitals to charge one price for cash patients and another for those with insurance.