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Re: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to

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Toothless law. What article writer should do is just shame the hospitals who don't comply. Tweet at them and make it known.

It really is a toothless law, the hospital probably makes more surplus profit from price discrimination in a single week than their entire fine for the year. The damages should be increased 100x.

Re: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to

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Interesting to read that only 33%-50% of hospitals comply with the law and post their prices. If there's one thing this country needs to do it's demand transparency everywhere. Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

> Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

A lot of it is. In California for example you can go look up any public employee's compensation at https://transparentcalifornia.com/

Re: I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to

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Interesting to read that only 33%-50% of hospitals comply with the law and post their prices. If there's one thing this country needs to do it's demand transparency everywhere. Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

> Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

This is especially useful for valuable gov't employees that want to negotiate a higher salary :) Totally fine by me, but just be aware you may not realize the second order effects. The primary people that care may actually just be the employees for pay fairness

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