[landryraccoon]

It's even worse than you're saying actually, because health care has no price transparency, very little consumer choice, no negotiating power on the part of the user and even the services provided are extremely opaque.

To be honest, I'm quite surprised you're siding with the provider here. Are you personally satisfied with healthcare pricing in the United States? Do you not share my intuition that in general, healthcare is too expensive and inefficient?

[nradov]

Health care now has significant price transparency, although there are still some major gaps and it can be challenging to shop for the best option. Many consumers are still unaware of the tools available.

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/healthplan-pr...

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-pric...

[ceejayoz]

Good luck trying to make sense of it.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-23-illusion-of-transpar...

> Humana published their MRFs across 11,000,000 different files, then rate-limited how fast you could download them

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35347647

[nradov]

Your missing the point. No one expects consumers to download the MRFs. Humana plan members can just log in to their web portal to search for the treatment they need and see prices across all the local network providers.

[ceejayoz]

> Humana plan members can just log in to their web portal to search for the treatment they need and see prices across all the local network providers.

Maybe. The article also asserts their data, where available, is often also wrong. See the section titled "Cross checking with hospital data".