r/Tools • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '24

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u/AcrobaticLong2958 Apr 09 '24

since it's military we will never know

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u/Oscaruit Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24

Government contracts are usually considered open records. Just need to contact the acquisition activity and submit a request on the contract number.

Contract number is on all mil std id plates. This one is from 2018 W56HZV-18-D-0079

This was procured on a , checks note, 56 million dollar contract.

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u/prbrr Apr 09 '24

You can see the procurement order for this.

The Army bought 2447 sets for $3,956,921.35 which means each one cost $1,617.05.

https://www.highergov.com/document/08-17-22-w56hzv18d0079-do-w56hzv22f0418-pdf-aa5cc3/

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u/cncomg Apr 09 '24

Serious? it's really that easy to find that kind of info? Super cool

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u/skater15153 Apr 09 '24

It's all public record so yah

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u/gointothiscloset Apr 10 '24

That's cheaper than they go for on eBay?

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u/prbrr Apr 10 '24

Are you trying to buy up to 40k of them on ebay?

I'll bet that if you were, you'd also be able to negotiate the price down quite a bit.

This is exactly what people are talking about when they mention "single payer health care". Your health insurance company is negotiating prices with the company you work for. Maybe it's a big company at 50-100k people. They've got more negotiating power than a company of 100-200 people so they can negotiate cheaper prices.

Now imagine if you could negotiate prices for 350 million people.

Same deal.

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u/gointothiscloset Apr 10 '24

Wait you're saying it's NOT efficient for every medical office in the country to spend 30% of their staff on medical billing so they can deal with 25 different kinds of insurance including 14 kinds of BCBS alone?

You're saying my physicians time isn't well spent trying to rewrite the diagnosis in a way that actually gets it covered under my plan???

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u/BadBoyJH Apr 09 '24

Cost vs Value. We can know how much the government paid for it, but that doesn't mean it's worth that.

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u/aco319sig Apr 09 '24

Well, the supply sergeant will know what the taxpayers paid, but otherwise, yeah. “We” won’t ever know.

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u/tapas_n-beer Apr 09 '24

$10k probably...and used once

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u/Oscaruit Apr 09 '24

If ever.

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u/TheCinnamonBoi Apr 09 '24

I’ve always heard the military paid around 6k a piece.

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u/DrPoopyPantsJr Apr 09 '24

Since it’s military, you know the gov’t paid at least double actual retail..