#if there's anyone interested in fancifying this spreadsheet PLEASE lmk

[tolkieniad]

Interrupting my most popular blog for one minute with something important for my fellow US peeps:

Who else in the USA would be interested in a spreadsheet organized by state & hospital that lists each hospital’s no-insurance, out-of-pocket costs for common procedures?

Because we could make that. We could literally crowdsource this info and put it together as a common resource.

Hospitals have tools online that list out those costs, but they are terrible. Absolutely fucking terrible and time-consuming to compare with other hospitals, which is absolutely on purpose. 

But! if people filled this out together, everybody doing a little bit (like when you yourself are looking something up), we could make a communal resource that helps people in the USA compare costs for procedures between hospitals.

Here’s an example I made comparing the same procedure at 2 different hospitals in Oregon:

in case that’s hard to see, here’s just the costs:

that’s terrible! 

imagine not knowing you had a choice that could save you $300!

we can make something better for each other, because our corrupt, for-profit capitalist healthcare system ain’t gonna do it for us!

Anyway, here’s the spreadsheet.

#healthcare #us healthcare #healthcare costs #socialism #commons #us politics #hospital bills #not lotr #if there's anyone interested in fancifying this spreadsheet PLEASE lmk #i am not an excel person i have a BA in philosophy #this will not be a common occurrence. i'm breaking my non-tolkien rule because #a) i'm a person not a robot and this is my blog; #b) i live in the usa and it is kind of fucked; #c) we could make a difference!! we could!! we could do it!! #worth a shot anyway!