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It is not correct to say that Medicare "would not allow" online pricing. Medicare doesn't care what hospitals charge. Medicare ignores hospital charges. It only pays what Medicare …

At hospitals in the US, every payer is charged a different price. Large insurers and HMO's negotiate large discounts which shifts costs onto smaller insurers who get smaller discou…

Eugene, I wasn't actually a formal member of the standards committee, however, since my products at DEC (ALL-IN-1 mail, etc.) were some of the earliest to use ASN.1, I was very inv…

The reason there are few Googles or Microsoft's, etc. has more to do with the structure of competition and markets than it does with the factors outlined in your essay. The reality…