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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by xxSparkleSxx on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:58AM (#14566776)
How often do your docs suggest tests that you think are not worthwhile? I'm young, but have never had a physician want to run tests on me where I thought they were a bad idea. If anything they normally say "that's not a big deal, we don't need to do anything for that."

The only exceptions have been dentists and dermatologists - where I'm largely paying out of pocket anyway.

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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by hkmurakami on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:52AM (#14566934)
I mean the opposite. I'll demand that I be able to get all the unnecessary and marginal value tests.
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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by skywhopper on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:38AM (#14568338)
Just to be a jerk and prove some point? Good for you I guess. I'm not sure why you assume guaranteed global insurance would mean there are suddenly no constraints on what tests you can get for free, no copays, or anything like that.
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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by hkmurakami on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:17PM (#14570205)
Because we actually have a proposal in the wild hat has passed state senate under these terms.

I'd absolutely go get extensive blood work done on a 6 month cadence and get covered PT if my cost approached zero.

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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by xxSparkleSxx on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:23PM (#14571465)
If your docs approve it, then you should probably be doing it!

And if your docs don't approve it and you want it anyway, pay out of pocket! I don't see how this would be detrimental to a single-payer system.

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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by TheCoelacanth on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:45PM (#14570446)
Why? Do you have a needle fetish? Most people aren't trying to go out of their way to get unnecessary tests. They aren't exactly fun; they are usually actually kind of unpleasant.
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