@wandering_home @NinaStrohminger Yes, we expect students at Warton to care. Income statistics are valued to anticipate consumer spending or to predict inflation. Estimates of personal income and corporate profits are closely followed by Wall Street investors, and policymakers. @wandering_home
A former nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital showed columnist @Davidlaz screenshots of the facility’s electronic health record system.
The screenshots show price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software. https://t.co/5KENNuWvIz
Seemingly arbitrary price markups are a defining characteristic of the U.S. healthcare system. But to see price hikes of as much as 675% being imposed in real time, automatically, by a hospital’s computer system is still shocking https://t.co/igwUB38fwC