r/HospitalBills • u/Old_Glove9292 • 12d ago

A $101,000 knee replacement? Why hospital charges vary so much.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/18/why-hospital-charges-prices-vary-cost/85656566007/
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u/Old_Glove9292 12d ago

Honestly, this is just a jumbled word salad, lacking any logical structure or intellectual rigor. It's fairly obvious that you're bending over backwards to defend providers at all costs, and as such, your arguments ring hollow. You clearly don’t understand English well enough to know what “phenomena” means, and your grasp of business is quite limited as well. You seem to believe that your insider knowledge of healthcare makes you an expert on such matters, but in reality, you’ve only learned a narrow set of patterns unique to the industry—not the broader principles of business, finance, and economics that would allow you to put them in perspective. Otherwise, you would recognize the patent absurdity embodied in your statements.

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u/saysee23 12d ago

So no valid arguments, just complaining about my response. . I don't care what you think about me.

You bringing attention to the fact prices vary isn't earth shattering. The article you provided was definitely slanted. It's important to know there are other sides to the story, things they left out.

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u/Old_Glove9292 12d ago

Why do you think any of the five articles that I shared with you are "slanted"? Because they present facts or conclusions that you don't like?

I'm not picking apart your argument, because I know you're arguing in bad faith and it's a waste of time and energy. Your argument more-or-less amounts to "it's complicated" with a strong ethos of "only people in healthcare will understand", which is more of a cop out than an argument. You seem to possess some combination of the following beliefs-- 1) that this absurd level of complexity and lack of transparency is necessary and there's nothing that can be done to fix it 2) that there's nothing wrong with it and the system is working just fine 3) only people invested in the current system are allowed to critique it-- I categorically reject all of these positions, because they're less about finding a solution, and more about shutting down any perspectives that run counter to the accepted narratives within the healthcare industry (i.e. they're bad faith arguments)

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u/saysee23 12d ago

Slanted because they highlight that there is such a huge difference in pricing because our health care system is bad. Without taking into consideration any necessary aspects of the equation. There was no conclusion in any article I read. It's not about what I like or don't. I see that it is incomplete. It's opinion based.

You could just as easy change the headline to: The cost of a hamburger varies across the United States. Some burgers are $5 where some can cost $30. We used to get the same burger for 99 cents. Same, right?

My argument is not in bad faith, I gave examples of parts of the equations that have to be considered. None of the articles provide a solution, probably because they did not isolate a problem. What problem are you highlighting? The overall cost? The cost prior to insurance? It's medication, there isn't a uniform, generic solution to increasing costs.