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mk  ·  4382 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dirty Medicine
We want to order a refrigerator for our lab. The Hospital requires us to use a vendor that charges $2k for a refrigerator that costs $400 at the Home Depot.

My father was a quadreplegic. The costs of the most basic supplies were ridiculous. For a rubber hose, the insurer would be charged $40, when the actual cost was probably $0.50, if that.

This is a huge part of healthcare costs in the US. The US is under the thumb of corporate legislation.