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If you actually think that the error bars are secondary, than not only is getting your kitchen done exactly like that, every good and service is as well.
Providers have to decide if they want to give a unified price to all their customers, or if they can predict which type of customer is associated with which kind of cost, and offer different prices based on that. If there's anything that would set healthcare apart from other industries, it is the error bars, but since you're saying it's not them (and I agree, that only impacts the price level, not the possibility of giving a price) this is absolutely nothing new for any entrepreneur or manager.
You might be right that the customers won't want to get profiled based on their diet or whatever - that is a completely irrelevant argument to what we're discussing, and can be addressed by regulators if it bothers people too much.
No?
Nobody is really calling for this and if given a list of priorities (like overall expensive, waiting room times) people will put price transparency at the bottom.
Additionally health system do not decide how much patients pay. Insurance companies do. If you would like more price transparency in how much people pay ask the people in charge of how much patients pay.
Yes? I don't know about you, but I never had to pay more for coffee because the espresso machine broke down earlier that week, or because the waiter they hiree recently is slower than average and can't cover as many tables as fast.
Is there a reason why you keep moving to arguments that aren't relevant to the conversation?
My apologies but I don't really feel like we are going to have a productive conversation and we should call it here.
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