The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper

Post by erikpukinskis » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 3:06 AM UTC

barry-cotter wrote: post #146

erikpukinskis wrote: post #129

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> wealth is largely the result of labor and ingenuity Does that assertion come from a study, or is it just a guess? My guess would be that wealth comes primarily from war and genocide, but I admit I haven't looked at the economic theories.

War and genocide have been part of human history since before the split from chimpanzees. Wealth in anything like what we’d recognise it dates to after the rise of agriculture. We can be quite confident that European wealth during the age of colonialism didn’t have much to do with colonialism as such because that wealth preceded the colonies and neighbours that differed in having colonies were much the same economica…

I'm not sure that's the right way to think about causality?

Post by notyourday » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

digitaltrees wrote: post #198

notyourday wrote: post #85

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These were the actual costs that I have to pay out of pocket until I reach the deductible of my insurance ( yearly ). I was at zero since it is a new year. In my case it is coming out of my HSA. Basically, cash price.

That means you don’t actually know the real cost since insurance shields you from the actual amount and it can be drastically different for each insurance company. You’re just estimating with a false sense of information.

I actually do because I get to provide the receipts in order for them to be deducted from my "still due" pile.

Pricing of this stuff is easy. One just needs to get off the couch to do that, or at least do as much as one does when looking for super duper 75" TV.

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