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Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

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Post by jmadsen »

hotloo wrote: post #129
Twisol wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rule is to use the same pronoun you'd use as if you didn't have two parties involved, right? "My friends and I did X" is right because "I did X" is, and "Me and my friends did X" is wrong because "Me did X" is obviously wrong.

Sorry guys, not a native here. I am sorry if I upset you with my poor English. I learnt my lesson :)

It's not something we are "upset" about, and considering the level of English you used throughout the rest of your post and response, I'm not sure "not a native" is a valid excuse.

I suspect if you aren't a native, the reason you say "my friends and me" is because it's a bad habit you've picked up from natives, like typing "gonna". I think anyone who can make a sentence such as,

"We cleaned up the procedure names manually, and matched the procedure related specialties to the hospital specialty ranking made by US News, and it gives much better perspective to the users"

is far beyond making English 101 mistakes confusing objects and subjects of sentences. Actually, in 15 years of on and off English teaching, I have run into very few non-natives who have that issue, since they had to actually study it. I find you to be somewhat unique.

In any case, there are plenty of natives who consistently say write and say this, so hopefully a few of them will take it to heart.

Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

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Post by seszett »

refurb wrote: post #118
mw67 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, in France its about 100 to 200 euros.

That's the total cost to the French medical system for a normal delivery? I find that hard to believe. In Canada that rate is a couple thousand dollars. Or is that what the patient has to pay?

Difficult to say if that's the case for hospitals, since they run on public money anyway, so they could run at a deficit and it would hide the higher cost than what they charge.

But in all cases, social security pays exactly what you are billed.

In most cases you pay yourself the hospital, clinic, doctor, whatever, and social security then gives you part of the costs (depending on the procedure) and if you have one, your private health insurance gives you the rest (or less, depending on your plan, of course).

The tendency is at removing the unnecessary payment by the patient before being reimbursed, but for now this at least serves as a way to ensure you know exactly how much was paid for the procedure, and to prevent too many excesses (since, well, the patient has to be able to pay, even if he gets reimbursed).

Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

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Post by lovskogen »

galenko wrote: post #126
refurb wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the total cost to the French medical system for a normal delivery? I find that hard to believe. In Canada that rate is a couple thousand dollars. Or is that what the patient has to pay?

Come to the UK, it's free.

It's also free in Norway.

Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

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Post by hotloo »

jmadsen wrote: post #131
hotloo wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry guys, not a native here. I am sorry if I upset you with my poor English. I learnt my lesson :)

It's not something we are "upset" about, and considering the level of English you used throughout the rest of your post and response, I'm not sure "not a native" is a valid excuse. I suspect if you aren't a native, the reason you say "my friends and me" is because it's a bad habit you've picked up from natives, like typing "gonna". I think anyone who can make a sentence such as, "We cleaned up the procedure names man…

Thanks :) I fix it then :)

Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

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Post by Havoc »

refurb wrote: post #118
mw67 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, in France its about 100 to 200 euros.

That's the total cost to the French medical system for a normal delivery? I find that hard to believe. In Canada that rate is a couple thousand dollars. Or is that what the patient has to pay?

>That's the total cost to the French medical system for a normal delivery? I find that hard to believe.

Many EU countries are trying to boost their birthrates, so the state covers most/all of it.

Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

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Post by petercooper »

ghayes wrote: post #137
lovskogen wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also free in Norway.

There is no free lunch?

There might be. The US government spends way more money per head on public healthcare than the UK (and only slightly less than Norway) and that's totally separate to all the private spending! http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...

Procedures are so expensive, doctors so highly paid, and insurers so profitable that the US is essentially subsidizing all that while still not providing universal healthcare.

In the UK we're both taxed less AND don't have to have private insurance due to the above. (It does have some downsides though, particularly in not being able to easily 'shop around' or get access to cutting edge/experimental medicine.. it's a bit one size fits all.)

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