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Real disruption, not showing prices on a page but having actual good doctors at a good price.
There is a monopoly today controlled by few.
This is cute, but it is based on a flawed premise. There are not "prices" for medical procedures and even the providers don't know what they are going to charge. Anecdata: when my wife was pregnant I asked the hospital what are the basic charges for normal obstetric delivery, since we were paying out of pocket. I got a reply in writing that it was $20k, a suspiciously round number without itemization. The baby comes…
Dispute all of it and the bill will likely be way less than 20k. I had mallet finger once and I got a bill of thousands of dollars and charge for a broken finger, then a set, and multiple check up visits. In reality I went to the doctor once, got an xray, he gave me a splint and said don't take it off for 8 weeks. I never went back for a second visit because it wasn't needed assuming I followed the treatment of did n…
Incidentally, totally agree. In any hospital, all you have to do is dispute the charges and demand documentation, and all of the sudden the bill is slashed tenfold! So, basically, the system is setup to screw the uninsured americans who may not know their rights or have the ability to challenge the hospital.
Excellent POC - Obamacare needs to pick this up and run with it, to provide the next level of detail, for all insurers. Can you tell us about the technology under the hood? Ruby or Node (or whatever)? What APIs did you use? Programming-wise, what was easy and what turned out to be tricky?
I did do some pre-processing on the data in python to geocode the locations (ie: change the street addresses to long/lat coordinates). I used geopy to do that, and pandas to manage the data.
The total product took me three days to build and design
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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?
If you want a doctor to attend (instead of simply a midwife) you have to pay him out of pocket (but if you have private insurance it might cover that too).
What it costs to the French medical system is anyone's guess. The French medical system is financed by the taxpayer. In theory, it's financed by a tax on salaries, but since it's in perpetual deficit and the deficit is covered by the state, it's in fact paid for by the taxpayer -- which is just as well, since everyone is covered.
It's a system of fully socialized medecine; there are pros and cons to such a system; it's not all good, but it's certainly not as bad as the American system (before or after Obamacare).
This is cute, but it is based on a flawed premise. There are not "prices" for medical procedures and even the providers don't know what they are going to charge. Anecdata: when my wife was pregnant I asked the hospital what are the basic charges for normal obstetric delivery, since we were paying out of pocket. I got a reply in writing that it was $20k, a suspiciously round number without itemization. The baby comes…
WOW just wow. Would have been cheaper to fly first class to any other country in the world and get the baby there. It's really time for significant overhaul of the health care system here in the US
There might be a problem that many airlines won't let pregnant women fly past a certain number of months, for fear they will deliver the baby in the air; so maybe you have to move to the target country months in advance, significantly adding to the total cost...?
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WOW just wow. Would have been cheaper to fly first class to any other country in the world and get the baby there. It's really time for significant overhaul of the health care system here in the US
Yes, in France its about 100 to 200 euros.
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Come to the UK, it's free.
It's also free in Norway.
So no, it is certainly not "free".
(And yes, people in Scandinavia stating things are "free" is a rant-trigger for me.)
This is cute, but it is based on a flawed premise. There are not "prices" for medical procedures and even the providers don't know what they are going to charge. Anecdata: when my wife was pregnant I asked the hospital what are the basic charges for normal obstetric delivery, since we were paying out of pocket. I got a reply in writing that it was $20k, a suspiciously round number without itemization. The baby comes…
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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 :)