As a European, the need for this baffles me.
Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
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Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
ER visits. Seriously. An ER is required by law to treat anyone who comes in. If you really can't pay, go to the ER. Some argue this is why healthcare costs so much because ERs have to be paid for.
Moreover -- ER visits with fake names. I have no moral issues, completely nothing, 0, lying and stealing from the bastards that sell $300 for a bag of saline or $40 for a pill of aspirin. I don't care that nobody pays it, I don't care what complicated laws or accounting tricks are, if that is put on a bill and sent to a person who was just sick or injured, that is wrong. It is criminal. So if you are conscious and ca…
Um this is the reason for Obamacare.
People sticking other people with the bill.
People will gladly pay $500+ for an iphone but will not spend money on their own health. Yet they expect the hospital to be forced to take them even if the they can pay.
Are some hospital charges a ripoff. Oh yes. But they are also open 24 hours a day with highly trained staff ready to try and save your life even if you were doing something dumb. They are on stand by even though you pay them nothing to be waiting.
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#123You have a JS error that breaks the whole site. Here it is: var query = new Parse.Query(Procedure); query.limit(1000); query.ascending)(
Thanks for the notice. The change has been fixed.
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#124Very cool idea. I think you should add something like select2[1] to your select input. That way when a user starts typing it could automatically start to autosuggest procedures.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice! Me and my friend made this app back in a few weeks ago, and here is the link. http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/#/ 1. We used the 'Average Payment' for the actual number shown on the site. 2. Even though it's irrelevant, but it actually goes back to you by your co-pay and other expenses to you. Not 100% sure though. The point in our app is that, we want to compare the price vs quality in the US top hospitals. T…
"My friends and I" not "me and my friends" Yes, call me a Grammar Nazi Troll, but I see a shocking amount of this most fundamental error all over forums where otherwise intelligent, educated people discuss things. You sound ignorant when you make the same mistakes as my 12-yo daughter. I can tell you make it because you are typing as you speak, which means you are in public, in meetings, and some day in presentations…
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.
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#126Earlier 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?
Come to the UK, it's free.
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#127Assuming this data is from the Medicare (insurance program for those >65) dataset released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services earlier this year ( http://go.cms.gov/1bowKJA ) I have a couple of points to make: 1.) Not sure if you grabbed "charges" or "payments", but "charges" are what the providers (hospitals) billed to Medicare, and "payments" are what Medicare actually paid the providers. "Payments" w…
I like the idea and the effort.
One thing I hate about it, though:
Again, third party javascripts are loaded in the background (Google, as usual, for example).
Come on people, you know this tracks everybody around the entire Web, stop using those scripts (is it so hard to use local js scripts? For example, find local "Web analytics" here: https://prism-break.org/).
What you're asking your users to do here is: telling Google (and the NSA, etc.) about your health problems. Not smart. At all.
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice! Me and my friend made this app back in a few weeks ago, and here is the link. http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/#/ 1. We used the 'Average Payment' for the actual number shown on the site. 2. Even though it's irrelevant, but it actually goes back to you by your co-pay and other expenses to you. Not 100% sure though. The point in our app is that, we want to compare the price vs quality in the US top hospitals. T…
I like the betterdoctor price maps! Too bad you didn't have a chance to enter our competition, because you might have been a winner. By point: 1.) Good choice 2.) You need to consider co-pays as well as allowable charges, deductibles, co-insurance (if applicable), and benefit maximums. 2b.) The quality data out there sucks (hard to measure quality in HC) and is hard to find. 3.) Cool 4.) Ibid 5.) Clever HC now is lik…
Thanks!
Yes, we would love to take our app to the next stage by providing more comparison functionalities. One of the reason why we skipped quite a bit of the metric is that we don't want to make the users to be too much confused with choices.
This is one of the problems with the current health care system. There are too many choices, and there is no simple way to do any sort of quick decision like renting care, etc.
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
"My friends and I" not "me and my friends" Yes, call me a Grammar Nazi Troll, but I see a shocking amount of this most fundamental error all over forums where otherwise intelligent, educated people discuss things. You sound ignorant when you make the same mistakes as my 12-yo daughter. I can tell you make it because you are typing as you speak, which means you are in public, in meetings, and some day in presentations…
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 :)
Re: Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
#130Super cool. Good work.