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The fact that this data has to be published means any one person with medical knowledge and their techie friend can now build a "what's the cheapest hospital near me?" website, which is something we couldn't do yesterday.

This is an enormous problem, and the way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time.



This exactly. The average joe doesn't need to be an expert in this stuff. Similar to Consumer Reports.




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