I gave them my Insurance Information and they came back and they said, we dont know. I would like to know how common that is and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs. I might add, i had at the time a high deductible, so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part d, when i noted it in the biography, mr. White was involved with in 2003, has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is, why is that still in the law . You want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start and ill do the first one. The second one real quick. The first one was, why cant they tell me what the price is . Like i said, forget about the email. Ask them what a price is and its like getting trade secrets out of cuba, right . Its next to impossible. What were seeing is that what the price is and what i owe are two different questions, right . So if i have coverage, i think
Question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick. The first one was, why cant
As you can in stating your question, and before you do that, identify yourself and your affiliation if you have one. Yes, sir . Hi. My name is steven spitz. I have two related questions on costs. One, i had an experience in the hospital where they said that i needed a certain common procedure, and i asked what the price was. I gave them my insurance information. And they came back and they said, we dont know. Id like to know how common that is, and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs . I might add, i had at the time a high deductible so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part b, when i noted it in the biography to mr. White, was involved with in 2003 has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is why is that bill in the law . Do you want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start. Ill do the first one, and the second one real quick.
Test test test test captioning performed by vitac you dont know what else is coming down the pike. I dont want to oversell these tools. They are useful as a way to ballpark things and help consumers shop and compare. Its still a rough estimate because health care by its nature is an unknown in the year ahead. For those planned events and joel spoke about this the huge variation in price with no discernible difference in quality. We know, for example that neck mris will change from 230 to a tenth of that amount. There are certain instances where we can really come very far along in terms of helping people estimate costs and sort of partake in the favorable economics of smart decisionmaking. I had one more thing. Thats just about this whole issue when we talk about the tools for consumers of choice architecture design. Its how we present this information to consumers and theres been studies that consumers will go with the default so really have to think how were presenting the cost infor
So amber stepped up. I got the ideof first doing a donation box first for money because, when you go through Something Like that, you need resources, you need something to turn onto. I didnt know the community would help as much as they did. What flowed in . Money. About 1,000 in the first week. Clothing, toys and essentials filled this large red box, so much as that rachel could make multiple trips from her temporary living space in ccalville. Chris standndp 37 46. We didd talk brieiely on the phone to rachel beerwart, that mother of 3 with those kids age 7 and under. She told me on the phone that, to this point, she had lost her faith in other people and their selflessness and their kindness. Yet she also told me the people of riverside far exceeded her expectation for when this was all set up to help her. She still has a long way to go. She needs to find a place to live. She needs to find a job but, fofonow, the generosity of the people around riverside has warmed her heart. In the