It is not correct to say that Medicare "would not allow" online pricing. Medicare doesn't care what hospitals charge. Medicare ignores hospital charges. It only pays what Medicare calculates is a fair price based on…
At hospitals in the US, every payer is charged a different price. Large insurers and HMO's negotiate large discounts which shifts costs onto smaller insurers who get smaller discounts and thus pay part of the costs of…
The reason there are few Googles or Microsoft's, etc. has more to do with the structure of competition and markets than it does with the factors outlined in your essay. The reality is that the companies that grow…
It is not correct to say that Medicare "would not allow" online pricing. Medicare doesn't care what hospitals charge. Medicare ignores hospital charges. It only pays what Medicare calculates is a fair price based on…
At hospitals in the US, every payer is charged a different price. Large insurers and HMO's negotiate large discounts which shifts costs onto smaller insurers who get smaller discounts and thus pay part of the costs of…
The reason there are few Googles or Microsoft's, etc. has more to do with the structure of competition and markets than it does with the factors outlined in your essay. The reality is that the companies that grow…