Healthcare Bluebook

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Kangaroos, Insurance Companies, and the Rising Cost of Healthcare

Complaining about health care prices is nothing new. The medical component of CPI has been higher than the overall CPI for decades. As far back as 1989 Gerry Anderson and colleagues showed "It's the Prices, Stupid" that explained why our national spending was so high compared to other countries. More recently, Elizabeth Rosenthal detailed those prices in an series of reports in The New York Times. She recently followed those up with her incisive book An American Sickness. Dr. Rosenthal also illustrated some of the clever techniques used to wring the most money out of our pockets, such as the upcoding industry and tacking facility fees onto visits. As the saying goes, if you're sitting at a poker table and you can't figure out who the sucker is, it's you.

No Forms For You!

What do you hate worst about health care?  It could be the uncertainty about diagnoses, or the impreciseness of treatments.  Or there is the opaqueness about the actual performance of our providers.  Maybe it is the drabness and/or confusing layout of many health care settings, or the interminable waiting we do in them.  But somewhere on the list has to be having to fill out all those forms, over and over, at practically every stop along the way. If only someone would do for health care what Amazon is trying to do with grocery stores with Amazon Go. If you've missed the many stories about Amazon Go, or don't want to bother with the above video, it goes something like this...