| Just because we SPEND money doesnt mean that the price is VALID. "Medicine" is grossly overpriced. our entire model is FUCKED. Source: designed and built and commissioned several hospitals and an entire family of doctors. Fuck the US health care system and fuck the military-industrial-spyware-congressional-graft system. I was the tech designer for SF General (before Zuck stuck his name on it) (I designed the entire nurse call system there, among many other things) My brother was the head of the VA for Alaska, commander of the 10th medical wing USAF, personal flight surgeon to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the pentagon. Grandmother was a surgical nurse for decades in Silicon Valley. Top cardiologist in California (and mayor of Saratoga) Aunt is top NICU nurse at El Camino Hospital (which I was TPM on building... Among other many accolades that my family has; we all agree - Healthcare is GROSSLY overpriced and BS. FFS I had to go to the hospital recently and they charged me $4,000 for the ride to the hospital and $12,000 for giving me vitamins and holding me over night. FUCK the medical industry pricing. |
Each medical group can also have their own economic models which are optimized for different things. One local group actually has reasonably priced specialty visits, but their outpatient services are crazy expensive ($1000 in-network for a NCS/EMG), and that's how they've structured things. Another semi-public group (University of California based) charges significantly more for visits, but significantly less for outpatient procedures ($1000 for an in-network 3.0T MRI).