re: #596 EmmmieG

All information? No. You’d have to go to medical school yourself for that. But what if we were put on a plan where my husband’s insurance paid for catastrophic coverage, and gave us a monthly allowance for other stuff? I would ask to see fee schedules from pediatricians (or, rather, their office staff), or at least ask other mothers about how reasonable they felt the doctor was, price-wise.

So what? My point is that you are not able to evaluate whether the cost of the service is actually ‘worth it’, and you are not going to be able to compare doctors and hospitals effectively. All you’ll have is cost, basically.

And, actually, lots of moms do do their research. (What a really smart mom does is find out who does the research, and ask her.)

You really feel like you can analyze all factors involved in a choice between two hospitals and make an informed decision about which hospital is superior?

I just re-read the wait-times table. It doesn’t have the information I really want, which is to know how long it takes to get the big stuff scheduled. (Chemo, heart surgery, major surgeries, etc.)

Then please find that out yourself, but until you do, please refrain from saying that UHC has longer wait times. For normal medical care— seeing a doctor— it has shorter wait times.