Controlling healthcare costs is just not possible

[Dan J 277]

How about requiring that doctors and hospitals publish their prices *before* treatment is given?

Healthcare costs are so high in part because they are hidden. Excess consumption of health

services occurs when patients and doctors collude, resulting in an "all-you-can-eat buffet"

syndrome so long as a third party pays.

This is a big reason why the whole HSA idea doesnt really work so well.

[Heracles 417]

And the table shows what, exactly? Not solvency, that's for certain.

Like schools and the military, healthcare is not run for profit in every other industrialized nation.

How does my wife's mammogram cost $750 here but $150 in Aus? They also only have 21 million people, which means the ROI on such equipment is low.

How does brand name medication here cost $190 in a yellow vial but the blister pack version of the same brand cost $43 in Aus?

[mawilson 2,133]

How does my wife's mammogram cost $750 here but $150 in Aus? They also only have 21 million people, which means the ROI on such equipment is low.

How does brand name medication here cost $190 in a yellow vial but the blister pack version of the same brand cost $43 in Aus?

How? Higher taxes, that's how.