Saturday, December 7, 2013

Instead of Chargemaster Casino, How About Reference-Based Pricing?

Read this DailyBlague quote

http://www.dailyblague.com/blog/?p=10375

from this New Yorker article about California Reference-Based Pricing of hospital bills:

Controlling Healthcare Costs

instead of what we have now, Hospital Chargemaster Roulette, described in"Bitter Pill" Time Magazine article cited in Reader Supported News:

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/16241-time-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us

Couldn't resist this satiric New Yorker piece by Andy Borowitz that popped up during the search:

CRUZ: “THE DREAM OF KEEPING POOR PEOPLE FROM SEEING A DOCTOR MUST NEVER DIE”

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