Today I successfully bargained down my dentist. In the end, I got 20% off the price of a service I really didn’t want in the first place. (Why was I there in the first place? The service I didn’t want was bundled with one I did).
So why did I bother bargaining? You know the answer: The overpriced service was not covered by insurance.
Sep 14 2006
In blogging as in most things, I prefer the timeless to the transient. I read history books, not newspapers. And if a blog entry won't be interesting in a month or a year, I'd rather not write it. In this spirit, I just came across two posts from Catallarchy that past the test of time. Check out Trent McBride on th...
Sep 14 2006
Don Boudreaux loves Tolstoy too. If only GDP were proportional to literary talent, the Russians would be the richest people on earth.
Sep 14 2006
Today I successfully bargained down my dentist. In the end, I got 20% off the price of a service I really didn't want in the first place. (Why was I there in the first place? The service I didn't want was bundled with one I did). So why did I bother bargaining? You know the answer: The overpriced service was not c...
READER COMMENTS
Buce
Sep 14 2006 at 10:56pm
Dentists are the last entrepreneurs. They have fairly huge fixed costs, and a staff, and they have to generate cashflow by inflicting pain. Scratch a dentist, and you will find a guy whose father was a peddler or a grocer or a tailor. They know how to bargain fer sher.
vakil
Sep 14 2006 at 11:05pm
Well, would you bargain if it was not overpriced? The problem with medical, legal and dental fields is the lack of transparency on pricing.
Allen
Sep 17 2006 at 3:05pm
I’m suprised that more people don’t do this.
I’m not saying I’d want more laws. But given how heavily regulated health care is I’m suprised they can charge more for a non-insured patients than insured patients for the same service.
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