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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by eeZah7Ux on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:48AM (#14537771)
Nonsense - triaging and urgency prioritization is used in medicine everywhere in the world since centuries.
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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:18AM (#14545403)
But with 'private health' I can pay and go to a doctor today. For a cold or whatever. Its a curious fact the 'public health' equates to 'rationed medicine'.
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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by TuringTest on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:58AM (#14551852)
Lucky you. There are some who need to skip several meals to go to a doctor.
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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:37AM (#14553024)
...and that's an interesting problem. I maintain the solution is not to try to give it away free to everybody. Because that fails in major ways, as we've discussed.
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Re:Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich by TuringTest on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:53AM (#14559241)
It works quite well in most countries in Europe. I've heard that it's way better than the US system for a majority of people, except for some revolutionary treatments that reach only a really small amount of uber-rich users.
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