Critical Condition ; Can America's Health-Care System Be Resuscitated?
The Record, Bergen County, NJ (January 02, 2005)
Author: Donald L. Barlett And James B. Steele
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YOU ARE STANDING in line at a supermarket to buy a box of Cheerios. You notice that the two customers in front of you are making the same purchase. The cashier rings up the first box at $5.41, just as advertised in the newspaper. But when the second box is scanned, the price registers $6.76. Strange, you think. Even more strange, the customer doesn't seem to notice the difference.
Then it's your turn. The cashier scans the box, and the price flashes $29.92. Why would anyone pay more than five times as much as another person for an identical box of cereal? They wouldn't.Critical Condition ; Can America's Health-Care System Be Resuscitated?
But when it comes to health care, you don't have any choice.
And that's precisely the kind of spread that hospitals use in selling their services. Except you don't know it - it's their secret.When you hear a politician, an economist, a corporate executive, talk about the wonders of the free market in health care, they neglect to mention that the system is rigged in a way that would not be tolerated in the sale of any other consumer product.In the supermarket, you know precisely what every other customer pays for a box of cereal or can of soup. But in the health care industry, that information is difficult, often impossible, to c...Try vLex for FREE for 3 days
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